Top 100 Annie Lennox Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
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#4. Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
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#5. 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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#6. I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
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#7. 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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#8. I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.
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#9. I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
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#10. When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!
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#11. Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.
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#12. 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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#13. I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
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#15. It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
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#16. Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.
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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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.
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#20. I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.
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#21. There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
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#22. Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.
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#23. I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
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#24. The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
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#25. Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.
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#26. Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
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#27. I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
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#28. 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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#29. I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
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#30. 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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#31. I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion ... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.
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#32. The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.
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#33. You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.
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#34. I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
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#35. Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
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#36. I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere ... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
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#37. I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
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#38. You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
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#39. If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '
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#40. Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
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#41. Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
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#42. 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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#43. I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"
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#44. You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.
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#45. The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.
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#46. 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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#47. There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.
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#48. There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
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#50. The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
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#51. 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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#53. I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
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#54. I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
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#55. Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
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#56. One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
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#57. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.
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#58. I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.
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#59. In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything.
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#60. My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
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#61. I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.
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#62. Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.
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#63. The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!
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#64. When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.
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#65. I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.
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#67. There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.
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#68. Let me be the only one to keep you from the cold
Now the floor of hell is laid, the stars are bright as gold
They light for you, they shine for you
They burn for all to see
Come into these arms again and set your spirit free
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#69. I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.
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#70. 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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#71. Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
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#72. You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'
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#73. 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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#74. I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.
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#75. 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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#77. If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.
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#78. I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
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#79. I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
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#80. One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.
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#81. Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.
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#85. I was born an original sinner
I was born from original sin
and if I had a dollar bill
for all the things I've done,
there'd be a mountain of money piled up to my ( ... )
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#86. I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
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#87. 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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#88. You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.
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#91. 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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#92. I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
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#93. Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
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#94. I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.
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#95. Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
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#96. 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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#97. I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.
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#98. The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.
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#99. 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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#100. Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.
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