Annie Lennox Quotes
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.
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Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.
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Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.
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My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.
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I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
