Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes

I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.

Peter Tork The Monkees

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

  

  Taliesin
  • Red
  • Leader
  • Host

• I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Work
  • Night
  • Day

• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

• I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Always

• I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Star

• I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Real
  • Trying

• Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Care
  • Baby
  • Hockey

• Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • She
  • Want
  • Care

• I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Think
  • Boxes
  • Cultural

• I wanted to be a cool mom. It was hectic. I felt very isolated for a long time, but in the end, it was cool because it helped me and Ninja stick together. If we hadn't, we would have maybe drifted.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Up
  • Character
  • Nature

• If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• The American people, through the 35 states that have liberalized laws banning either medical marijuana, marijuana in general, or cannabinoid oils, have made it clear that federal enforcers should stay out of their personal lives. It’s time for restraint of the federal government’s over-aggressive weed warriors.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• No charm is proof against a dagger in the back.

  

  Tad Williams

• Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and sense of affection and commitment lay in shared collective analysis of social injustice as well as a vision for radical transformation"

  

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  • Home
  • Vision
  • Commitment

• Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• The carriage lurches back and forth as the vehicle – the bastard child of a spider, a H. G. Wells war machine and a taxi – leaps over rooftops and clings to walls.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Vehicle
  • Carriage lurches
  • H. G. Wells

• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Happiness
  • Eye
  • Beauty

• I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees