Annie Lennox Quotes
You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
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The being was trying to get him to think about what he was saying, not just recite.
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When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
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It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
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The characteristic poetic strategy of our time-refine your singularities-is something Auden has not learned; so his best poems are very peculiarly good, nearly the most interesting poems of our time. When he writes badly, we can afford to be angry at him, and he can afford to laugh at us.
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Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.
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You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.
