Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

Peter Tork The Monkees

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• When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
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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.'

  

  Walter Mosley
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• T Rex could not run.

  

  Jack Horner
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• Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

  

  Jack Wild
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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.

  

  Tad Williams
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• The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Najib Razak
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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.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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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.

  

  Kate Spade
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• If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

  

  Zach Braff
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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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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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.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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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.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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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.

  

  Nancy Roman
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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.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• Even though Kurt died in the most horrific way possible, there is this mythology and romanticism that surrounds him, because he's 27 forever.  The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long.  Kurt has gotten to icon status because he will never age.  He will always be that relevant in that time and always be beautiful.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
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• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
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• The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • Words
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• Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
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• I say thank you in advance to us all working together to achieve great victories, not just electorally for Labour but emotionally for the whole of our society to show we don't have to be unequal, it doesn't have to be unfair, poverty isn't inevitable, things can and they will change. Thank you very much.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Great
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  • Society

• My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees