Pat Benatar Quotes

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• I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.

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  Life, Laughter, Perfect

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• You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

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  Past, Want, Firsts

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• Most chick-singers say "If you hurt me, I'll die"... I say, if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.

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  Hurt, Singers, Ass

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to be true, you have to be honest.. Don't do anything, just figure out what it is that is true to you, what makes you happiest to do and be out there. And if it doesn't work, then you just have to call it a day and go find something else. But don't make it up. Don't go out there and pretend to be something you aren't.

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  Honest, Figures, True You

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

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  Education, Mistake, Cutting

  Song: All Fired Up

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• If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

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  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• Everything must change, everything must move forward.

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  Moving, Moving Forward

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1997.

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• I read somewhere that we are all more than we know. And I really believe that. Everybody is worth something, and think of all the amazing things that you could be to each other, to people you don't even know, of all the things that you could accomplish.

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  Believe, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

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  Mirrors, Rearview Mirror, Great Times

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• With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

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  Leadership, Sacrifice, Grace

  Song: Invincible, 1985

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• Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

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  Love, Children, Pain

  Song: Hell is for Children, Album: Best Shots

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• Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

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  Evil, Notches, Cases

  Song: Hit Me With With Your Best Shot, Album: Best Shots

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• In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I didn't just want to be the chick singing ballads about somebody breaking my heart. Everyone in the business said, 'Why don't you do what Olivia Newton-Jonn and Linda Ronstadt are doing?' But I wanted to sing as a powerful female who wasn't afraid to speak her mind or be sexual.

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  Powerful, Heart, Ideas

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• I can't stand what people do to each other. I think we're brilliant as a species. I think we are amazing. I think that God is incredible, that He just gave us everything. Everything in our face. Everything for us to use. And sometimes we're such shitheads. And it makes me crazy.

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  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."

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  Attitude, Kids, Scratches

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

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  Blessing, Doing What You Want, Curse

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1997.

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• When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.

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  Girl, Play, Records

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• But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

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  Heart, Soul, Circus

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• Gays are the best, though - we just did Gay Pride in Long Beach and in Tampa. And they're the best audience. They're so enthusiastic. They come dressed up - it's really fun. They're crazy and I love them. They're sweet as can be. Even my macho husband, he has a great time, too. He's so cool, he doesn't care. He loves them.

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  Beach, Sweet, Fun

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

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  Dream, Heartbreaker, Makers

  Song: Heartbreaker

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• I don't know who it is, probably some geek - said that when a female gets to a certain age, all her sexuality goes. She's not a vital person anymore. If you're somebody's mother you're not vital. This is such crap, because you're still a person. You still have all the things that you came into childbearing with and all that kind of stuff.

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  Mother, Age, Female

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I'm not only their mother. I'm still who I was before, I just don't get to be it all the time.

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  Mother, Jobs, Ambition

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

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• We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.

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  Inspirational, Enemy, Faces

  Song: Invincible, Album: Seven the Hard Way, 1985

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• I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

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  America, Pulse, Visionaries

  "Book Talk: Pat Benatar says her memoir took persuasion". Interview with Nick Zieminski, www.reuters.com. July 7, 2010.

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• It's really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don't have kids it's a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.

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  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

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