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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• The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • America
  • Small
  • Negative

• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Idea

• 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.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Pretty
  • Strong
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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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Attention
  • College

• 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.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• 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.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Living
  • Destruction
  • Ecstasy

• If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Work
  • Living
  • Restaurant

• I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Heroine
  • Patti Smith

• Winning, you can overlook so many things.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Things
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Good
  • Political

• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

  

  Brit Marling

• My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Play
  • Method
  • Bullet

• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • History
  • Doubt
  • Unique

• I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.

  

  Jim Gibbons
  • People
  • Life
  • War

• 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.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
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