Annie Lennox quotes

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. (Annie Lennox)
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries. View quote
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Whatever you do, you do out of a passion. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I love to be individual, to step beyond gender. View quote
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The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question. View quote
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You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul. View quote
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You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?' View quote
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As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in. (Annie Lennox)
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. View quote
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People ask me so many questions. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have a lot to be grateful for. View quote
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Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. View quote
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I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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! View quote
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I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free. (Annie Lennox)
I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is. View quote
Annie Lennox