Pete Townshend Quotes
Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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We love our fans and are very connected with our fans.
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La langue est un systéme dont toutes les parties peuvent et doivent être considérés dans leur solidarité synchronique.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
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In Delhi, where I grew up, commerce is brusque. You don't ask each other how your day has been. You might not even smile. I'm not saying this is ideal - it's how it is. You're tied together by a transaction. The customer doesn't tremble before complaining about how cold his food is.
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Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
