Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes

Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.

Peter Tork The Monkees

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• It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.

  

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• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

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• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

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• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

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• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

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• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

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• For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

  

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• I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.

  

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• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

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• This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

  

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• Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

  

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• St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.

  

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• Being an actor does make you aware of your age.

  

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• Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

  

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• I really love learning and working long hours.

  

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• When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

  

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• The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.

  

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• Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the heart and soul. We're not all that bad. I don't really know!

  

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• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

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• I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.

  

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• Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

  

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• Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • World
  • Music
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