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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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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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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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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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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Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.
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Any kid in my position coming from being an All-American and all that wants to be the guy that makes all the plays coming into their freshman year.
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There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.
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It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.
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I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
