Pete Townshend Quotes
It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.
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If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.
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Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.
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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
