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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I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.
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Single Record of the Year and New Vocalist were such a blessing to see, but when I saw that I was up for Album of the Year, that's when I started to be like, 'What in the world, this is crazy!' That one really got me in a pretty different way.
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I had people coming up and telling me they hadn't voted in twenty-five years, but they were turning out for me on Tuesday. I still see the face of this kid who approached me in the little town of Willmar. 'Jesse,' he said, 'you are us.'
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Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.
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The fashion world is 10,000 times more superficial than the art world. Fashion people are so much crazier than art-world people. They are constantly trying to leech from the art world, but they will never be able to do what we do.
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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.
