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 have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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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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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
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When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
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I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.
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I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and photo shoots and that, that are kind of a necessary evil of getting my music to people's ears to hear. Over the years, I've just become more tolerant of that.
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All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.
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I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.
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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.
