Pete Townshend Quotes
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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You reach a point where you don't work for money.
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I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.
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Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
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For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.
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We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
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I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.
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I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.
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We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.
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You need eyes that tell the dog who watches them what you are feeling toward it, even though the message may be hidden from the outside world. Above all, you nee telepathy so that the dog thinks with you. These things are not always born in people. They can be developed as any sense or gift can be developed. That is, providing the person wishes to develop them is honest in mind, because with animals you cannot cheat.
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The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.
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We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.
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It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
