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.Pete Townshend The Who
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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.
Jaclyn Smith -
Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
Rachel Stevens -
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
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!
Larry Niven -
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
Patricia Marx -
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.
Queen Latifah
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
Radha Mitchell -
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.
R. Lee Ermey -
Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
Barry Ritholtz -
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens -
Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!
Gaby Hoffmann -
Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
Randy Pausch
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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.
Samantha Morton -
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.
Rachel Bloom -
Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S.
Rabih Alameddine -
I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Karl Marx -
'Is it the regency you want, or me?''The regency. You, sweetheart, are the worthless dross that comes with it.'
Tanith Lee
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I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.
Jo Brand -
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
Nick Rahall -
People of India deserve to be complimented for making the 2014 elections a referendum on the misrule of the Congress-led UPA and demonstrating their faith in a proven new leadership.
Piyush Goyal -
I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.
Alan Jackson -
I wish I could say differently, but I really don't think so. There are too many musicians already for probably anyone to be noticed without some sort of commercial support. Even the most talented ones drown in a sea of mediocrity, and only the politically correct ones will ever be promoted (willingly...) by the press anyhow.
Varg Vikernes Burzum -
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.
Pete Townshend The Who