Pete Townshend Quotes
Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.
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I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.
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I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two women, the dudes will bro out. And the woman won't get heard.
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Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.
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'Is it the regency you want, or me?''The regency. You, sweetheart, are the worthless dross that comes with it.'
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I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.
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It does seem reasonable to expect that the presence of a brand new regional campus of a major research university along a major interstate highway will help to stimulate investment activity and growth and that those developments would have trickle-down impacts as well.
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I love Frank Ocean. We're going to get married. In true life, we should get married.
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The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me.
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Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.
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Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.
