Pete Townshend Quotes

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

Pete Townshend The Who

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Game
  • Black
  • Choose

• With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • You
  • Camera

• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • High
  • Think
  • Reason

• We always go into a game to win.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Game
  • Always
  • Win

• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • World
  • Done
  • Success

• Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Guns

• At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Because
  • Got

• I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

  

  Paige O'Hara
  • Dream
  • New
  • New Things

• The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • People
  • You
  • Famous

• What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Party
  • Focus
  • Saying

• Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

  

  Bruce Lee

• It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Party
  • Imagination

• I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Band
  • Poetry

• Even the bad interviews I think you learn from. They make you better.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Bad

• I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

  

  Dido Armstrong
  • Time
  • Long
  • Relationship

• Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.

  

  Shad Gregory Moss
  • Star

• Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.

  

  Democritus
  • Life
  • Men
  • Intelligent

• The spell was simple and I'd said half of it before she even figured out that it was a spell. Since you like bubbles so, In a bubble you must go. In that bubble you will stay Till your bubbles go away. Sound can't pass from inside out Even if you scream or shout. If you want to be set free, End your spell, that's the key

  

  E.D. Baker
  • She
  • Free
  • Simple

• I just am trans. That's just the way it is. I knew this as a child. But I was told that because I expressed femininity in a boy's body, I needed to be silent about it. To be ashamed. That led to isolation, which then made it easier for me to be prey to a predator in my own home.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Home
  • Boy

• He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Pardon

• I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who