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.
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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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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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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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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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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
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I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
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From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.
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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.
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Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.
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Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.
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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.
