Annie Lennox Quotes
Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.
Quotes to Explore
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.
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High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.
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I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter.
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Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.
