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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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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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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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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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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Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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I collect craft. It inspires me.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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We have a community where almost 50 percent of the people in the city of Cleveland alone have some type of record. I represent one of the poorest districts in America - out of 435, I'm 422.
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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.
