Annie Lennox Quotes
I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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Even though I take care of the mom stuff, I've maintained my own individuality with my own projects, and I think our girls see that I'm not just the mom or the wife.
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Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
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I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.
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I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.
