Annie Lennox Quotes

Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.

Annie Lennox Eurythmics

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• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Family
  • Exercise
  • Arrogance

• What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • Words
  • Myself
  • Meaning

• I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Like

• I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

  

  Haley Webb
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Never

• My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Family
  • College
  • Husband

• Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • May
  • Silence
  • Speech

• The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Stop
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• Everything does go in a circle.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Circles

• I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Mean
  • Two

• As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have you seen my papa go by?" "M-m-m," said Pippi. "How did he look? Did he have blue eyes?" "Yes," said the girl. "Medium large, not too tall and not too short?" "Yes," said the girl. "Black hat and black shoes?" "Yes, exactly," said the girl eagerly. "No, that one we haven't seen," said Pippi decidedly.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Children
  • She
  • Black

• There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the ending, but we finally find out who shot Bambi's mother.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Children
  • Book
  • Mother

• Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Family
  • Communication
  • Ingredient

• I'm just really happy.

  

  Jacoby Jones
  • Happy

• Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Earth
  • Pleasure
  • Excitement

• I really, really love to move. You know what I mean? I mean, it's not a workout, but I absolutely love to do it, and that's performing, which is very close to doing Zumba. When you're onstage and you're moving everything, every single part of your body, it's actually working and active to the tips of your fingers. You're burning a hell of a lot of calories. And I think that's what people always look forward to - they want to know how many calories they've burned, and it's really important to actually know that and know your nutrition even more.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

  

  Norman Maclean
  • Universe
  • Survive
  • Volunteer

• Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Function
  • Aspect

• Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Feminism
  • Empower
  • Referring