Annie Lennox Quotes
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.
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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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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 was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
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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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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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I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
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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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When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.
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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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I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
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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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You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.
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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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It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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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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I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.
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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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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 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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You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
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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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Success breeds the excitement to continue going.