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 don't think about my fame very much.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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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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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.
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I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
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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.
