Chrissie Hynde Quotes

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

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• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Quality
  • Hair

• Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Devil
  • Angel

• It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Free
  • Freedom

• It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Funny
  • Politics

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Scars
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• Bling is good.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • Albums

• It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Small

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Professional
  • Manager
  • Farm

• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  

  Ted Dexter
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  • Mean
  • Sympathetic

• It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Movie
  • Political
  • Enough

• Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • May
  • Today
  • Action

• Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • People
  • Reading
  • Literature

• It makes a lot of sense to me. She seems to me like a Jewish woman, the way she thinks and behaves.

  

  Peaches Geldof
  • She

• It's a blessing to have people to support you from across the world.

  

  Offset Migos
  • People
  • World
  • Support

• Everybody says, 'When you have kids, you really get away from yourself.' But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it.

  

  Brooke Shields
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  • Kids
  • Selfish

• I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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