Eurythmics Quotes
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If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need.
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I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.
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Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.
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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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In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
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I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.
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Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
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I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
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I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.
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As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know?
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I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.
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It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
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I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
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If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.
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Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
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If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.
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I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
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There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.
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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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Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
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When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
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I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.