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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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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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
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In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.
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In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet.
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I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.
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Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
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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.
