Peter Frampton Quotes
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.
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In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.
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What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.
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Now who are the individuals who are the greatest benefactors of the living generation of mankind? I should say: Confucius and Lao-Tse; the Buddha; the Prophets of Israel and Judah; Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad; and Socrates.
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I didn't know how to throw a punch - why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.
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People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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I am
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Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.
