Pete Townshend Quotes

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Wants

• Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • See

• The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • More

• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Law
  • Positive
  • Thought

• The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Funny
  • Politics

• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Stevie

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Find
  • Difficult

• Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • True
  • Positive

• 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

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • England
  • Outsider

• We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

  

  Demosthenes
  • People
  • Believe

• Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I feel like I've got a nice little niche where I stay just below the radar, which is perfect. I just don't want to be known for anything other than music.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Nice

• I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

  

  Clara Ann Fowler
  • Great
  • Done

• I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • World
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
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