Annie Lennox Quotes
I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.
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Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?
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I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
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You search for images and stories and movies and music from people that look like you and sound like you and speak like you because you want to feel like, 'Oh, if they can do it, so can I.' There's a little bit of that need for validation, especially when you're younger and trying to look to someone to look up to.
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I have decided to give my support to Theresa May. I intend to work closely with her, to campaign for her and I'm sure she'll be a very fine prime minister of this country.
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Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.
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I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
