Chrissie Hynde Quotes

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

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• I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Always
  • Poverty
  • Horror

• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Married

• I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Great
  • Lyrics
  • Just

• My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Kitchen

• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Law
  • Question
  • Play

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Tennis

• I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Baby

• People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Long
  • Water
  • Problems

• Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Together
  • Alone
  • Day

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

  

  Dirk Benedict
  • Time
  • Money

• General Advice: Never break a promise, but re-negotiate them if need be. If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong. Recognize that most things are pass/fail. Feedback loops: ask in confidence.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Confidence
  • Advice

• Two peanuts walk into a rather rough bar, not looking for any trouble. Unfortunately, one was a salted.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Trouble
  • Peanuts

• Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Decision
  • Destiny
  • Tears

• The biggest way I stay motivated is to run with a group of friends. Sometimes it's hard to get going by yourself, but if you have a plan and a meeting time, you know this run will happen for sure. It's a way to have fun - while also getting in a workout. Plus it distracts from pain, helps you fight fatigue, and gives you that extra push.

  

  Allyson Felix
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Pain