Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes
My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
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T Rex could not run.
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Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that's OCD.
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.
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I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.
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Big screens helped propel Samsung to top-tier prominence and helped iPhone sales explode a few years later. But for many, including myself, the biggest-screen models just weren't practical, because their overall size made them too large, too bulky, and too heavy.
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My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
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In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.
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The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.
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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.
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Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.
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Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Never leave fish to find fish.
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Something that happens to me is that I'll write a play specifically from my own experience, and then I'll inevitably be told that I'm being tunnel-visioned about it. People always ask, 'What about that other race? Or discrimination toward those people?'
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My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
