Pete Townshend Quotes
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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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What I do is I do my job.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
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Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.
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I hate to cook and love to eat.
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There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
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You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.
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The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.
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I figured he'd be like a genius, because he is. He’s very, very subtle and nuanced. It’s very much in the eyes. That’s how it is in real life. He’s such a great actor. I was just amazed that I got the chance to work with him.
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I drink tons of water, because with the entire running around you can get dehydrated.
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Hitler never intended to defend ‘the West’ against Bolshevism but always remained ready to join ‘the Reds’ for the destruction of the West, even in the middle of the struggle against Soviet Russia.
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There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage just for economic security or social respectability. So today, the best way to get women once more interested in getting married and having children is for men to accept women's new insistence on equality. This is, I think, why educated women in America, are now more pro - marriage and more disapproving of divorce than other groups of women who have less experience with egalitarian partners or less clout in getting their needs met in relationships.
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Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.
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I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
