Chrissie Hynde Quotes
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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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 like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they'll like me.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.
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I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
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I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
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Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible to express ourselves, because the pottery employed a dozen people, not all of whom are making pots. And these people had families, children, and they had to have a wage that would allow them to raise their family and they had to get a paycheck every Friday afternoon. So if we had not made pots that would sell it, would not have been possible for these people to be employed.
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Yahoo was Jerry Yang's baby. He did a great job creating the baby. Unfortunately, some of the key executives after the foundation of the company couldn't keep up with the technology innovation of the industry. They thought that Yahoo should become a media company.
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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
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Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.
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My policy is to do the least amount to get by.
