Chrissie Hynde Quotes

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

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• I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

  

  Sage Stallone
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• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

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• I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.

  

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• By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

  

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• In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
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  • Ending

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.

  

  Carl Zeiss
  • Great
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  • Stadium

• Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
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• You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.

  

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  • Red

• Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Work
  • School
  • Money

• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  

  Patrick White
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  • Free
  • English

• The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • People
  • Dream
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• I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

  

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• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  

  Gary Larson
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• To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

  

  A. A. Milne
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• I guess, like, I've always listened to rap, and I remember I specifically started listening to, like, pop-rap when I was, like, 11, you know, like Shaggy. I love Shaggy. And then I discovered, like, underground rap when I got to high school, and really, that's when it kind of blossomed. I don't feel like my love for rap blossomed off of Shaggy.

  

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• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

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• Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

  

  Octavio Paz
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  • Alone
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• I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.

  

  Jason Robards
  • motivation

• Rap is just to me very annoying.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Rap
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• When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Listening