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I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

Annie Lennox

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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
Hiv Activist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Aiberdeen
Ann Lennox
Ann Griselda Lennox
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I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
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It was very easy for me to dedicate myself to the care of mothers, help them have healthy babies, help them be healthy, help them in a place where they don't have opportunities. Success breeds the excitement to continue going. It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.
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Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
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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.
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We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.
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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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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.
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One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
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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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I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
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Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.
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We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.
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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.
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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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I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.
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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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I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
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Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
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When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.
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