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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.
Annie Lennox
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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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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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I love to make music and stay grounded.
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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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Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.
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I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
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I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.
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I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
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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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Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
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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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Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.
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One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
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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.
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