Annie Lennox Quotes
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I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
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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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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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Success breeds the excitement to continue going.
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There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.
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I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.
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I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
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The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
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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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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'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.
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I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.
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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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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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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'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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There are so many things that we could do to change the world in so many aspects. There are people working in nonprofit organizations, tackling the issues that we so desperately need to face, while governments fail so appallingly.
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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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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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Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without 'Peace' we cannot survive. Valentine's Day is on the 14 February. Christmas Day is on the 25 December. Peace Day has been established by the United Nations on the 21 September, and the whole world is invited to participate.
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I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.
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I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.