Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes
Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
Peter Tork
The Monkees
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
Paige VanZant
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I want a place where I can have horses.
Laura Branigan
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
T. J. Miller
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
Fat Joe
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
Ian St. John
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
Halsey
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
Nancy Sinatra
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
Camilla Belle
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
Randall Munroe
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
Forest Whitaker
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
J. Paul Getty
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
N. T. Wright
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
Tamara Tunie
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
Yaya Toure
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
Kate Reardon
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
Kate Chopin
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What will eventually cause the defeat of ISIL is that it will collapse under its own contradictions, frankly. When the populations in which it tries to maneuver realize that that ideology is not to their future benefit.
Martin Dempsey
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I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.
Neil Diamond
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I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
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The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
John Cheever
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?
Bette Midler
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Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
Peter Tork
The Monkees
