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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The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'
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The music changes the way i think and feel every day and night. it lifts me up.
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I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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'Time to get up,' he informed her. 'Don’t you hear the Almighty bellowing in the living room?''What’s he saying?' Marsha murmured crossly.'Nothing in particular. Repent or suffer eternal damnation. The usual tribal tub-thumping.'
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I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.
