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I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

Annie Lennox

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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
Hiv Activist
Music Video Director
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Aiberdeen
Ann Lennox
Ann Griselda Lennox
Loss
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Illness
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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.
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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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Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
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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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I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
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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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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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I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.
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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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Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.
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The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.
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Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
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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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I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.
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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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Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
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I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned.
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I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.
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You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
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The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.
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