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 -
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D. Elton Trueblood -
Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
Jack Wild -
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 -
The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Najib Razak -
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 -
I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.
Zach Braff -
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 -
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 -
The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.
Nancy Roman -
Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.
Fernando Pessoa
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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 -
I failed kindergarten because I couldn't spell my last name.
Zach Galifianakis -
on Kelly's drummer friend Anyone that beats fucking skins for a living has got to be somewhat weird.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.
Rabindranath Tagore -
It's the way you play that makes it. What I say is, for Christ's sake, you don't have to kill yourself to sing. Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.
Count Basie
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I can't choose one favorite place because all destinations have something different to offer. My favorite city to explore is Paris; I love the culture of Morocco and the waterfalls in St. Lucia. I just can't choose one. I would like to go back to New Zealand to see more of what it has to offer.
Martha Hunt -
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
Cesare Beccaria -
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Jacques Chirac -
It is a happy day when we come to know that with God's help, nothing is impossible for us.
Marvin J. Ashton -
A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
Gayle Brandeis -
My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
Peter Tork The Monkees