Chrissie Hynde Quotes

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

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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.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
  • Help
  • Health

• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Working
  • Process
  • Legislative

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Garden
  • Germany
  • Bag

• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Government
  • Status Quo

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

  

  Walter Martin
  • May
  • Soul
  • Success

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Energy
  • Grow
  • Chemistry

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • You
  • Player
  • Tennis

• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Force
  • Jazz

• Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Too Much

• Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Believe
  • Health
  • Confidence

• When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • World
  • Marriage
  • Celebrate

• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Education
  • Value
  • California

• You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Goals

• What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • Today

• Particularly over the last few decades, technological innovation has offered opportunities to bring people and nations together - but it has also created significant new challenges to law enforcement.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • People
  • Together
  • Law

• Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Wrestling
  • Greek

• Trying to concentrate the work and thoughts down to a simple single objective is always a difficult practice but that's the nature of the beast... easy to find the beginning but always hard to reach the end

  

  Carl McCoy
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Easy

• Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

  

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