Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
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We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.
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Everything I do is music-related.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.
