Chrissie Hynde Quotes
Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a film that nobody knows about and get 80 percent of the public to know about it in just 30 days. That's called marketing. We need to harvest Hollywood for climate change awareness.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
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It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.
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Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.