Pete Townshend Quotes

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

Pete Townshend

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I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

Jens Voigt

LifeFamilyTimeTravelTraining

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

John Gourley

MusicBeginningPeopleCollaboration

We must take down the carnies. I think we need to start a campaign to defeat their scamming ways. I never win the boardwalk basketball game.

Melissa Rauch

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Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

Robert James Graves

WorkLearnDutyPleasureTasteWell

I'm as real as they come.

Roddy Piper

RealCome

I'm particularly fond of sci-fi and fantasy genres.

Roop Durgapal

FantasySci-FiFondGenres

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you're a Christian you've got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It's no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that's going to go, 'Yeah, give me some of that?'

Joyce Meyer

AttitudeGodBestCultureDressMe

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

Chris Rock

AboveJustOverratedHack

The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.

Peter Schiff

EnemyNeverEconomyRecoveryGoing

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

Thornton Wilder

AdvertisingBe DifferentSuicide

If you can make it in Rockford, you can make it anywhere.

Rick Nielsen

YouMakeAnywhere

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

Noah Baumbach

WorkPeopleMeControlMoviesWhy

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