Pete Wentz Quotes
I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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One of the things I like to do during an 'overhaul' revision is bust out my highlighters and colored pens. Tools like these make me feel like a real writer.
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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
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I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know are yea and amen.
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I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.
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I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it.
