Pete Townshend Quotes

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

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• When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

  

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• Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

  

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• I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

  

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• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  

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• I clean up really well. I can get dolled up.

  

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• I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

  

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• I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.

  

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• The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.

  

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• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

  

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• May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

  

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• There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.

  

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• Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.

  

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• I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

  

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• I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're lower-middle class or working class. An awful lot of your so-called angry young actors have grown up in extreme bourgeois comfort. It really is surprisingly common.

  

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• There's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton, and that's because they're paying attention.

  

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• Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.

  

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• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

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• I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

  

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