Annie Lennox Quotes
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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.
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Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
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Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.
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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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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.
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One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.
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Women's issues have always been a part of my life.
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I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.
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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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You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.
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Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?
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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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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'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
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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 want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
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The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
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I love to make music and stay grounded.
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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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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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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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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.
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When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.