Annie Lennox Quotes

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Annie Lennox

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 25, 1954

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

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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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I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

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I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

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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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Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

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If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

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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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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 watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.

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You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody... as a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

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I like where I live here, in London.

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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 think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

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Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

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Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

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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.

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