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I want to be true to who I am.

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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Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.
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We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.
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I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.
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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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