Chrissie Hynde Quotes
Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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Many varieties of sonnet, of course, have been written over the ages.
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People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.
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It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
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Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.
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Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.
