Annie Lennox Quotes
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I had originally done a production called 'The Resistance.' It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.
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I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.
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Nothing is real until you walk out on stage.
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
