Chrissie Hynde Quotes
When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
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If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
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Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.
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When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
