Annie Lennox Quotes
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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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Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
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I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
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We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.
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When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.
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You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.
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You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
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I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
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I love to make music and stay grounded.
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It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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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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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.
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Success breeds the excitement to continue going.
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I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
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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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One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
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I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
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I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
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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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I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
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I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.
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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.