Annie Lennox Quotes

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Annie Lennox

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 25, 1954

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

Annie Lennox

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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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.

Annie Lennox

I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

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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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I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

Annie Lennox

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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I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

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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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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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When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

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I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

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People ask me so many questions.

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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.

Annie Lennox

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

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I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

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I have a lot to be grateful for.

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I see myself as a traveller.

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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 love to make music and stay grounded.

Annie Lennox