Annie Lennox Quotes
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I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
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We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.
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I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
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I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
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The poetic side of me is Scottish.
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I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.
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My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
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When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
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It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
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I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.
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My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.
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There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...
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I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.
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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
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In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
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Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
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Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.
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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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I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.
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I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.
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In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that.