Annie Lennox Quotes
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I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
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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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It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
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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 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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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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When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.
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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 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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Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
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One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
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I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
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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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It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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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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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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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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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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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 not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
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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'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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Success breeds the excitement to continue going.