Roger Daltrey Quotes
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Biotechnology is a worry. What if they take genetic material from wet noodles and blowfish and splice it into politician chromosomes and create a Clinton administration?
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I feel L.A. is unlike anything I've experienced. It's nice when I can relate to people, but that's not very often. I know they're out there, but I feel that there's a very big pressure here to be seen as being gorgeous and special. I don't think there's the same pressure in Australia.
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I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.
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Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.
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Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
