Annie Lennox Quotes
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Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.
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Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.
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I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
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Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
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Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
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Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
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I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
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I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.
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The poetic side of me is Scottish.
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Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.
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I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.
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Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
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I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.
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There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
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The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
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I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
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I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
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The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on.
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I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
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Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
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I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
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Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.