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Portrait of Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox

(1954) Music Video Director United Kingdom

229 quotes in 1065 categories

Annie Lennox says she isn’t a saint or an angel, just a human being. She talks about needing to stay grounded, which sometimes means being vulnerable. She also stresses that she wants to be true to who she is, no matter what.

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Annie Lennox is a music video director from the United Kingdom, best known for Annie Lennox Quotes.

Quick Facts About Annie Lennox

Born: December 25, 1954
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Music Video Director
Notable works: Annie Lennox Quotes
Known for: Into the West, Why, Walking on Broken Glass, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Spouse: Mitchell Bessel

About Annie Lennox

She appeared in the 1983 music video for “Sweet Dreams” with orange cropped hair and a men’s lounge suit, prompting the BBC to note her powerful, androgynous look. Eurythmics’ later hits include “There Must Be an Angel,” “Love Is a Stranger,” and “Here Comes the Rain Again.”

Awards & Honors

Academy Award for Best Original Song Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Livingstone Medal Officer of the Order of the British Empire honorary doctorate Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Echo Pop Award for the Best International Rock/Pop Female Artist

Quotes by Annie Lennox

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

Desire

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The poetic side of me is Scottish.

Poetic

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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

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People ask me so many questions.

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Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

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I want to be true to who I am.

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Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

Excitement

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I've never been a social person.

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You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

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Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.

Community

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I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

Mother

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I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

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I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

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I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

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I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.

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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…

Empowering

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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…

Hate

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I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is…

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Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or…

Fear

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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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Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their…

Ancestor

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You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

Expression

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The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just…

Consciousness

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I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit,…

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Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without…

Children

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It was very easy for me to dedicate myself to the care of mothers, help them have healthy babies, help them be…

Baby

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Let me be the only one to keep you from the cold Now the floor of hell is laid, the stars are…

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We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal…

Boundaries

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Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I…

Art

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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…

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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…

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We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. The United States government's doing that. There's a global…

Baby

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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…

Access

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I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a…

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If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a…

Amplification

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There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status…

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I see myself as a traveller.

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I have a lot to be grateful for.

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I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

Angel

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Annie Lennox by topic

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