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.Peter Tork The Monkees
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
Washed Out -
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge -
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel -
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
Pat Barker -
Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
Zhang Zhidong -
I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
Dan Harmon
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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.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
Natalie Dormer -
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.
Patrick Lencioni -
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. Rap Brown
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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.
P. J. Harvey -
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?
Sam Shepard -
Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
Venus Williams -
I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
Karen Robards -
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
Fionnula Flanagan -
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
Jon Kabat-Zinn -
We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man -
People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"
Zephyr Teachout -
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
Derek Jacobi -
Consumer debt is the lifeblood of our economy. All modern nation states are built on deficit spending. Debt has come to be the central issue of international politics. But nobody seems to know exactly what it is, or how to think about it.
David Graeber -
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
Peter Tork The Monkees