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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Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.
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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.
