Roger Daltrey Quotes

I can't retire.

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• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Art
  • True
  • Reality

• Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Black
  • Culture

• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Speed
  • Size

• I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Kind
  • Poverty
  • Argument

• In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Interest
  • Duty
  • Less

• By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Character
  • You
  • Kind

• Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • Day
  • Joy

• I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Fight
  • Rights
  • Against

• I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Men
  • True
  • Respect

• I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • May
  • Dumb
  • Blonde

• We see young leaders who embrace the diversity of this region not as a weakness, but as a strength, and who realize that even though we are all individually different and come from different traditions and different communities, we're stronger when we work together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Different
  • Together

• Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Country
  • Progress
  • Integrity

• I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Done
  • Broken
  • Firsts

• As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American
  • Planning

• The idle always have a mind to do something.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Mind

• When you get to the level that I'm at, often you are a very lonely man.

  

  Paulo Dybala
  • Man
  • Lonely
  • Level

• Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Real
  • Personality
  • Architecture

• I can't retire.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who