Annie Lennox Quotes
I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.
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It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
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I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.
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I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.
