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Annie Lennox is a Scottish singer-songwriter known for her distinctive voice and musical talent. Born on December 25, 1954, she has been active in the music industry since the late 1970s. Renowned for her emotional delivery and diverse musical styles, Annie Lennox's work spans genres including pop, rock, soul, and folk.

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“Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.”

Stuff Fashion Industry Appearance Fuel Dissatisfied Fashion Industry Fashion And Beauty

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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.”

Certain Opportunity Communication Music Is Vehicle Platforms

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

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“The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.”

Knows Persons Known Mines Inspired Feminist Ardent

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“The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.”

Men Way Needs Taken Feminism

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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.”

Bigs Differences Rooms Pages Magazines Private Life Living Room

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“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.”

People Ifs Together Strong Voice Organisation

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“Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.”

World Rights Granted Developing

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

Knows Corners Around The Corner

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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?”

Done Term Feminism Empowerment Women Empowerment Emancipation Women Empowering Women Work To Be Done

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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.”

Goal Issues Feminism Zeitgeist

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

Knows Heart Soul Expression Intellect Songwriting

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“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.”

Thinking Men Faces Boys Issues Feminism Addresses Inclusion Exclusion

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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.”

People Ifs Firsts Mean Facts Age Five Saws First Time Eight Fortunate Thirty Birthday Elderly 60th Birthday Expectancy Uganda Life Expectancy Thirty Eight

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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.”

Ideas Moments Challenges Essentials Trials Hardship Waking Ancestor

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“Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.”

Men Needs Important Country Hate Term Feminism Men And Women Embrace Developing Developing Countries Man Hating

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“It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.”

Knows World Children Example Not Sure Appropriate

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“Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.”

Feels Years Persons Artist Individual My Own Creative Taken Comfortable Skins Paid Dues Driven Curious Solo Creative Person

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“Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.”

Has Beens Home London Stopping

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“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.”

Children Suffering Girl Issues Cold Involved Passionate Reputation Girlfriend My Girlfriend My Girl Aloof

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“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.”

Children Hard Beautiful Parent My Own Havens Daughter My Daughter My Own Life Very Beautiful Working Parents

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“I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.”

House Black White Tvs Black And White Bathroom Hallways Tenements

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“I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.”

Men Looks Wanted Causes Interest Interesting Powerful Media Equal Wave Statements Shock Very Interesting Ripple Ambiguous

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“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.”

Done Seems Beautiful Feminism Gay Population Boards Organisation No Brainer

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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.”

Persons Girl Social Groups Hair Grew Grew Up Lipstick Other Girl Exchanging

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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.”

Ifs Feels Has Beens Might Artist Singing Photographer Singers Might Have Been

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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.”

Ifs Want Feels Writing Kind Persons Doe I Can Bits Powerful Paper Smart Nasty

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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.”

Ifs Want Faces Song Dog Baby Integrity Selling Chains Your Face Disagree Globes Autonomy Make You Happy Supermarkets

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“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.”

World Helping Artist Fighting Records Media Havens Corners Labels Music Business Filters Record Labels Bedfellows

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“Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.”

Age Life Is Term My Own Skins Ease Grounded

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“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.”

Country States Issues Obvious Developing Bores Visiting Developing Countries

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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.”

Thinking World Looks Persons Asks Stuff Answers Please Ordinary Mad Ask Me Experts Ordinary Person

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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!”

Wells Two Together Individual Boys Nice Warm Fabulous Living Together

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“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.”

Thinking Stills Gay Drug Population Users 80s Hiv

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“The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.”

World Humans Jesus Natural Consciousness Natural World Inner World Human Consciousness

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“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.”

People Knows Want Process Masters Factors Factories Puppets Puppet Master

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“Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without 'Peace' we cannot survive. Valentine's Day is on the 14 February. Christmas Day is on the 25 December. Peace Day has been established by the United Nations on the 21 September, and the whole world is invited to participate.”

“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.”

Kind Might Certain Attitude Source Respect Green Granted Labels

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“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.”

Ifs World Want Needs Long Ends Poverty Depth Scales Like Me Haul Ending Poverty Long Haul

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“When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.”

Together Powerful Groups Aging Get Together

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“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.”

Needs Kind Happens Motivation Consciousness Society Wake Up Absolutes Significant Wake Up Call Significant Change

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“There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.”

People I Can Enough Spiritual Realizing My Own Judgment Recognition Fickle Reassurance

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“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.”

Kind Ends Might Song Three Lines Strange Abstract Songwriting Rhyme Backwards Puzzles Never Quit Crosswords

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“There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.”

Kind Two Artist Left Pepsi

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“A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.”

Might Age Deals Issues Deeper Birthday 60th Birthday Vapid

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“This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead”

Said Book Dream Path Regret No Regrets

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“Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.”

“I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.”

Feels Enough Artist Relevance Woman Artist

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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.”

Believe Children Political Mother Activism Hiv Elimination Transmission Political Will

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“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”

Light Spirit Song Stars Hell Arms Cold Gold Let Me Shining

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About the Author

Born: December 25, 1954
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 211

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