Annie Lennox Quotes

The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music.

Annie Lennox Eurythmics

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• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Live
  • Can
  • Scenes

• Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Wisdom
  • Discipline
  • Vice

• Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Violence
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• Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Girl
  • You
  • Easy

• About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Writing
  • History
  • Death

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Trying
  • Environment

• We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

  

  Kate Millett
  • People
  • Women
  • Culture

• I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!

  

  Ian McShane
  • Like
  • Film
  • Successful

• In some lyceums they tell me that they have voted to exclude the subject of religion. But how do I know what their religion is, and when I am near to or far from it? I have walked into such an arena and done my best to make a clean breast of what religion I have experienced, and the audience never suspected what I was about.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Done

• I'm a gangsta, but y'all knew that Da Big Boss Dogg, yeah I had to do that I keep a blue flag hanging out my backside, only on the left side, yeah that's the Crip side.

  

  Snoop Dogg
  • Blue
  • Boss
  • Gangsta

• Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Long

• The Marianne Vos Route goes through the seven villages of Aalburg, where I grew up, and celebrates my World and Olympic titles with a number of benches along the route, where you can stop and rest your legs. You'll see the white windmill in Meeuwen and, in Babylonienbroek, a statue of the silver bike I rode to celebrate my Olympic track win.

  

  Marianne Vos
  • Up
  • World
  • Stop

• I'm acting in a new show on NBC with Kristen Bell and Ted Danson, which is definitely the scariest thing I've ever done.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Done

• Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Music

• The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • World
  • Music
  • American

• I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Long

• All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

  

  David Gill
  • Different
  • May
  • Value

• If you don’t use your voice, there’s someone waiting behind you who will.

  

  Kat Cole
  • Waiting
  • Voice
  • Behind

• The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Music
  • Scene
  • Discontent