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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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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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.
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I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.
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I think controversy is not always a bad thing. Jesus was controversial. It's through controversy that people often wake up and smell the coffee and say, 'What's going on here? Do we need to rethink something here?'
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'You have to admit, half the people who work here are mildly autistic; poor social skills, the ability to obsess on anything numerical or repetitive, the odd outfits, the paranoia and the sense of continually being judged and measured.'
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Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
