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I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
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Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.
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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
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There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.
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In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that.
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Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.
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I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
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Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
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Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
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Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
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I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.
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I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
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The poetic side of me is Scottish.
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Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.
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I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.
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There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
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Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
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The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
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I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.
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I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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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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Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
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I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
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