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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
Hiv Activist
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Aiberdeen
Ann Lennox
Ann Griselda Lennox
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My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.
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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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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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I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
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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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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
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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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It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
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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
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It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
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One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
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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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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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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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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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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.
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The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on.
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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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Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.
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