Eurythmics Quotes
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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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'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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It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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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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I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
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I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.
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We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.
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Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
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I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
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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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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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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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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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I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
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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 played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
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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 don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.
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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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I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.
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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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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'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.