Chrissie Hynde Quotes
I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.
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I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.
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I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
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I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.
