Annie Lennox Quotes
I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
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Chorus: We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
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And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
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There have been men who have proposed to me to return to slavery the black warriors of Port Hudson and Olustee to their masters to conciliate the South. I should be damned in time and in eternity for so doing. The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they're seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you're not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.
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I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.
