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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After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend
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There is always a conflict and that even increases as I get older. I have to be on my guard not to oversimplify things, but you can hardly deny that architecture is physical presence.
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As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.
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We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.
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Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.
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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.
