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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.

Annie Lennox

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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
Hiv Activist
Music Video Director
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Singer-Songwriter
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Aiberdeen
Ann Lennox
Ann Griselda Lennox
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When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!
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As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
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There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do with their lives, and I'm a deeply flawed individual - but this is it. We're all just living it and... bless us all.
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I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
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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?'
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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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For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
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If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.
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I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory.
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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.
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.
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You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.
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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.
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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 think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
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