Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.
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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.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.
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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.
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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.
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Where's he that died o' yesterday? What better chance hath he To clink the can and toss the pot When this night's junkets be? For the lad that died o' yesterday Is just as dead - ho! ho! - As the whoreson knave men laid away A thousand years ago.
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A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
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It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.
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I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American.
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I'm into emulation, not imitation.
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Truly the jaws of irony are agape!
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.
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I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.
