Annie Lennox Quotes
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It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
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For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
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I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.
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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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Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
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More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you.
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I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
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The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
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I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
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I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.
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Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.
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Women's issues have always been a part of my life.
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I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
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When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
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I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.
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Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
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I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
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I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.
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As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know?
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You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.
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I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
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Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
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Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something else. It's not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what's in. Style is independent of that; style is individual.
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If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.