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Annie Lennox Quotes
Annie Lennox
Scottish
Musician
Born:
Dec 25
,
1954
Life
Me
People
Think
Women
You
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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
Today
Kindness
Daily
You
Change
Yourself
World
Kind
Make
Been
Ask
Your
Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.
Annie Lennox
Challenges
Trials
Hardships
Every
Our
Ancestors
Totally
About
Idea
Most
Although
Waking
Essential
Us
Moment
Even
Lives
I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
Annie Lennox
Time
Woman
Human Being
Mother
Those
Hopefully
Spin
Hats
Advocate
Artist
Human
Being
Different
Plates
Things
I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
Annie Lennox
Wonderful
Think
Way
Morally
Could
Take
Scotland
Wonderful Way
Ethically
Stand
I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.
Annie Lennox
Strange
Felt
Always
Little
Strange Thing
Homeless
Thing
The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.
Annie Lennox
Gay
Something
General
Only
Still
Came
Affects
HIV
Users
Population
Away
Thinks
I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
Annie Lennox
Hate
Shopping
Will
Extreme
Way
Out
Crowds
Consumerism
Go
Avoid
I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.
Annie Lennox
Natural
World
About
Seems
Because
Always
Am
Passionate
Place
Communicator
I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
Annie Lennox
Bathroom
TV
District
Brought
Had
House
Hallway
Up
Working
Even
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.
Annie Lennox
Myself
Hate
People
Seriously
Some People
Preaching
Think
Some
Take
Want
Anyone
Thing
Last
I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
Annie Lennox
Enjoy
Spinning
Lot
Different
Want
Plates
Different Things
Keep
Things
You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.
Annie Lennox
You
People
Puppet
Find
Factor
Through
Factory
Joni Mitchell
Know
Masters
Mitchell
Go
Owned
Want
Process
Place
Specific
Thing
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.
Annie Lennox
Me
You
Integrity
Happy
Song
Dog
Disagree
Face
Baby
Tried
All-Around
Supermarket
Open
Put
Globe
Around
Makes
Always
Am
Selling
Goes
Want
Autonomy
Your
Who
Who Am I
Chain
Keep
I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.
Annie Lennox
Work
Comeback
Satisfied
Incredible
Back
Feel
Look
Very
Really
Keen
Thing
I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
Annie Lennox
Human Being
Angel
Saint
Human
Being
Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
Annie Lennox
Time
Creative
Become
Own
Skin
Guess
Out
Solo
Solo Artist
Find
Some
My Own
More
Point
Individual
Driven
Never
Taken
Feel
Over
Comfortable
Dues
Years
Truly
Person
Curious
Artist
Where
Really
Paid
Who
Creative Person
Now
Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.
Annie Lennox
Property
Speak
Healthy
Own
Think
Out
Pretty
Having
Having Children
Daughters
Self-Awareness
Behalf
Children
Your
Figure
Views
Need
Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.
Annie Lennox
Nelson
Nelson Mandela
Inspiring
Sacrificed
He
Feel
Him
Truly
Person
Mandela
Really
Who
Believed
Awe
Awe-Inspiring
Humbled
There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
Annie Lennox
Those
Kinds
Pepsi
Simply
Left
Endorse
Artists
Who
Two
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.
Annie Lennox
Me
World
Think
Please
Say
Mad
Stuff
Look
Because
Answer
Questions
Person
Just
Anything
Expert
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
Ask
Barking
Actual
When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
Annie Lennox
You
Tell
Point
Whether
Created
Really
Successful
Certain
Creating
Certain Point
Momentum
Things
Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
Annie Lennox
Rights
World
Few
Those
Take
Developed
Developed World
Developing
Developing World
Lot
Granted
When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
Annie Lennox
Confusion
Beauty
Own
Sense
Pain
Some
My Own
Songs
Look
Majority
Coming
Came
Were
Personal
Place
Really
Express
Universal
Need
I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
Annie Lennox
Life
Suits
Men
Egotistical
Think
Kings
Road
Up
Very
Really
Set
I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.
Annie Lennox
Girl
Hair
Group
Other
Would
Never
Exchanging
Been
Up
Person
Lipstick
Just
Grew
Social
Thing
You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'
Annie Lennox
Faith
You
Face
Think
Worst
Could
Go
Go For It
Happen
Things
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