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Pat Benatar, born on January 10, 1953, is an iconic American singer and songwriter. Her musical career began in the 1970s, gaining fame for her distinctive voice and rock style. Known for her hit songs like 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot' and 'Love Is a Battlefield', Pat Benatar became one of the most popular artists of the 1980s.

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

Mistake Education Cutting Healed Live And Learn Learning From Our Mistakes

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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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“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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“At fifty. I thought I would be done. I thought I'd be finished by now. So I have no idea. I just leave it.”

Ideas Done Would Be Finished No Idea Fifty

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“When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea.”

“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.”

Ifs Honest Figures Being True Being Honest True You

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“I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.”

Trying Children Mother Hell Safe Adults

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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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“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.”

People Thinking Knows Believe Accomplish Amazing Things

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“I have different reasons for the way that I react to things now that I have kids. It's not about me, it's about my children going out into this world that makes me say, "What the hell are you all doing?" I have to put them out there, and then I have to worry.”

World Way Children Different Reason Kids Worry Hell This World My Children Going Out

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“When I was a kid about joining the Peace Corps. It said it was "the hardest job you'll ever love." This is what parenting is, as far as I'm concerned. This is parenting. That is the friggin' Peace Corps. Because you don't love doing this - this is the thing you love the most in your life, it's the best thing you ever do.”

Said Kids Jobs Concerned Hardest Best Things Joining Things You Love Hardest Job Peace Corps

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“It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake.”

Matter Hard Parent Mistake Scared Screws Old You

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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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“When you have children your life - this is my job and that's my life. So it's a totally different thing. They're my priority, they have to be, and they always will be. I have to do them first. So this always gets pushed in the back.”

Firsts Children Different Jobs Priorities Different Things

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“Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that's okay with me. But I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me; it's boring.”

Ifs Want Trying Happens Interest Okay Boring Not Interested

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“I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.”

Years Stills Play Five Week Ten Twelve

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“I love "Heartbreaker." "Heartbreaker" stands up for me still. It still works to me. The sentiment is still timely and it just works. But I don't want to do that again. I'm not interested in re-creating that. That was great and I'll just leave it there.”

Want Stills Creating Sentiments Not Interested Timely Heartbreaker

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“I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.”

Wanted Felt Responsibility My Family Right Thing

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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."”

Whole Kids Attitude Changed Like You Scratches Cords Spinal Cord

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“I wasn't interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records.”

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“Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.”

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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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“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.”

Stills Important Kids Jobs Mother Ambition My Ambition

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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.”

Want Firsts Past Can't Change You Can't Change The Past Can't Change The Past

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

Seems Mirrors Great Times Rearview Mirror

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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.”

Ifs Dies Hurt Singers Ass Kicks Chicks Hurt Me You Hurt Me

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“I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.”

Thinking Pushing Envelopes Gaga Pushing The Envelope

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Two Moments Happens Mother Daughter Two Daughters

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“With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.”

Leadership Grace Sacrifice Conviction

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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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“Everything must change, everything must move forward.”

Moving Moving Forward

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“First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.”

Firsts Personal Life

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“I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.”

Care Jobs Don't Care Labels I Don't Care

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“I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.”

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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.”

Heart Soul Circus Touring Tents

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“I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.”

Wonderful Pops Singers

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

America Fingers Pulse Visionaries

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

Love Children Eye Pain Wounded Love Pain Love And Pain

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“Love is a battlefield.”

Song Love Is Battlefields

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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.”

“You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.”

Pay Love You Bones Flesh Violence Against Women

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“You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.”

Want Done Trash

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“People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Long Stills Courses Periods Long Time Evolve Life Changing Where You Are Time Periods

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“I never looked at people or singing as commodities.”

People Singing Commodity

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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.”

Firsts Play Girl Walks Records Radio Stations Radio Stations

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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.”

Ifs Knows Want Blessing What You Want Curse Retired Doing What You Want Blessing You

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“Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.”

Knows Records Amount Buying Things Change Small Amounts

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“Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.”

Heart Children Stills Would Be Night Courses Fun Dark Love Is Hell Special Rocks My Heart Promise And Love Absolutes Every Night Special Places Heartbreaker

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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.”

Trying Difficult Figures Baby

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“There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.”

Beautiful Young Careers Taken Stage Singers Young Women Beautiful Women Beyonce Stage Presence

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Born: January 10, 1953
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 55

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