Eurythmics Quotes
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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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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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You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.
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I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.
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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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I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.
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I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
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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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Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.
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We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.
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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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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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I love to make music and stay grounded.
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I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
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When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.
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One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
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To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.
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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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If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.
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I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
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Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.
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We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes.
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We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of HIV from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.