Annie Lennox Quotes

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

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• On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Long
  • War
  • Peace

• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Alone
  • Looking
  • U.S.

• Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • May
  • Everything
  • Details

• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Knowledge
  • Beauty
  • Memory

• We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Power
  • Creativity
  • Destroy

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.

  

  Nate Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Book
  • First
  • Everyone

• The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Way
  • Best
  • Three

• Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Mind
  • Dark
  • Questions

• All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Hope

• I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • Man
  • Ice

• It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts

• It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Game
  • Magic
  • Secrets

• Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Reading
  • Find
  • Finish

• To err is human, but it feels divine.

  

  Mae West
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Divine

• My generation were all careerists.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Generation
  • Were

• Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Me

• I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• 'To hell with the handkerchief,' said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.

  

  James Thurber
  • Proud
  • Smile
  • Squad

• I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

  

  Bobby Schilling
  • Business
  • Guy

• I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • Things
  • Reproduce

• No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Together
  • Knows
  • Whole

• I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

  

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