Annie Lennox Quotes
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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A lot of films come out before they're finished.
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I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.
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The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.
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I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.
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We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement
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When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.
