Annie Lennox Quotes
If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.
Quotes to Explore
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
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That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
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After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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We've got a major problem, we've got a divide between the left, which understands how vital Hollywood and propaganda in communications is, and a conservative movement that thinks "no, we're the ones who are going to solve all the issues in America, we're congressmen, how could you not trust us?".
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People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.
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If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.
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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
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If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.
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But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.
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I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.
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On one level, I realize the basic appeal of my character is her body. But the totality of the Conan film is really much more than that. When I read the script, I thought it was just a matter of sword fighting. But when I read the books, I found they were filled with sorcery, and I liked that very much. I've always loved fairy tales, and I've always believed that just around the corner, magic truly does exist, human magic.
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Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.
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Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts And damn it feels good to be a gangsta!
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
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If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.
