Annie Lennox Quotes
Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.
Quotes to Explore
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.
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When I was young, to have had somebody out there to look up to... it would have made a world of difference; it would have changed my life.
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There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
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Working improvisationally in my studio with dancers, it's completely different. We don't have any starting point; we don't have an end point. We don't have anything we are trying to show or do. The picture evolves from nowhere.
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I just don't think I'm a very good singer.
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Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.
