Chrissie Hynde Quotes
The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I always drive like a madman.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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I always feel like I'm an actress.
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I've always been a fan of the '80s and, particularly, hair metal.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to 'suck it up' because so many other profound issues are at stake.
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You know that old saying, 'A way to a man's heart is through his stomach' - that's me.
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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
