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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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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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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When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
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In a union of equals, there can be no second-class consumers. I will not accept that in some parts of Europe, people are sold food of lower quality than in other countries, despite the packaging and branding being identical.
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The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.
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I was not intimidated by Kessler's record.
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Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
