Chrissie Hynde Quotes
I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode.
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Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.
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I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.
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You know, 10 years ago I never thought I'd be in this position. It's a dream and I don't even know if I dreamed this big.
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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.
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I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.
