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Pete Townshend Quotes

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: May 19, 1945

Topics

Music Trouble Principal Deaf Hearing

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.

Live People World Details Musicians

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Andrew Carnegie

Honesty Motto First Industry Then

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

Style Parents Military Almost Strict

I was brought into the life of one Bas Rutten in 2001 at a grappling tournament that I was attending to support a friend of mine. I had never met Bas before but, of course, knew who he was: the King of Pancrase, UFC Heavyweight champion, and the commentator with Pride.

Life Friend Support King Champion

Modeling will slow down no matter who you are.

Slow You Modeling Down Will Matter

Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.

Stand Three Something Thousand Hits

If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bag Bubble See I See Big Roll

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

People Think Push Doing You Want

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

I Am Believe Innocence Person Like

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

Ethics Think More Open Ethical Take

We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.

Timothy Bottoms

Sad Angry New York Brother Me Doing

A drone isn't any different than a bomb; it's not any different than other weapons that are used, where there is always a capacity for people to be killed who you wished were not. It's just the weapons platform.

People You Always Used Different

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