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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Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
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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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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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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.
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I failed kindergarten because I couldn't spell my last name.
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It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.
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Resolutions require only words. Results take action.
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My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.
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I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?
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I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
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My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
