Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.
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Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That's sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan.
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I loved being a troublemaker. At Santa Monica High, I would smoke on campus, go barefoot, anything.
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I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I ever going to get out of here, and thinking that one could only do it the way newspaper people have always done it. I needed a scoop, and I would go out and I would dream upon coming upon fires or the sky falling in front of me or anything.
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Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
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If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them.
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
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I like to listen the blues and some classical.
