Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
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As an anthropology major, I wanted to understand the cultural significance of poverty - why it exists and why some countries can rise above it while others can't.
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We were all 16 and 17. When you're that age, you're just daydreaming all day. We had bands we loved - Green Day, Weezer, a lot of bands in the '90s - and we just wanted to have fun. We didn't overthink it too much.
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I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.
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Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
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Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.
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It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
