Pete Townshend Quotes
When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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I'm not a gay rights activist.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.
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When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
