Chrissie Hynde Quotes
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.
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I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.
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I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
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I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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All great scientists have used their imaginations freely, and let it ride them to outrageous conclusions without crying 'Halt!'
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I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.
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Primum est igitur ut apud nos valeant ea quae valere apud iudicem volumus, adficiamurque antequam adficere conemur.
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Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.
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The worst kind of sin is not to acknowledge that you are sinful.
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What don't kill me will just make me crazier
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If you look at people who have an iPhone or Android and are under 40 and are dissatisfied with their bank, it's actually quite a large market.
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Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
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What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
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A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.
