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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Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.
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I'm not one who likes to be honored, to be honest with you. That's never been who I am.
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Yeah I'm chillin' on a dirt road, laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones.
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We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
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Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.
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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.
