Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes
No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
Peter Tork
The Monkees
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
Garth Brooks
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
Dana Perino
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
Gary Ackerman
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
Patricia Heaton
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We just here to do our job.
Quavo
Migos
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
Halston Sage
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
Tadashi Shoji
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
Dan Phillips
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
E. M. Forster
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
A. E. Waite
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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
Zach LaVine
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
Randa Haines
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No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
Edouard Manet
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Speaking via twitter on August 13, 2017 in response to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in harlottesville, Virginia and quoting Nelson Mandela. Archived via Wayback Machine on August 14, 2017. Source: Bipartisan condemnation for 'Unite the Right' rally by CNN's Jennifer Hansler on August 13, 2017. Archived via Wayback Machine on August 14, 2017.
Barack Obama
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
Sam Smith
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No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
Peter Tork
The Monkees
