Pete Townshend Quotes

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Pete Townshend

Recitation: by Male by Female

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A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

Jim Inhofe

LawBadCountryRule Of LawMean

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

Johann Georg Hamann

TodayDayTomorrowMisunderstoodWho

Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.

Matthew Desmond

LiveHousingSocialWhereHowIssue

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

Jeffrey Brown

WorkBalanceHelpSeriousMoreOut

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Jeanette Winterson

WorkTimeOverInterestUsStill

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

John Ruskin

HeartMannersPersonWantKindReal

The strategic plan to transform Valeant smartly focuses on rebuilding the company's core franchises in ophthalmology, dermatology, and gastroenterology while simultaneously using the proceeds from the sale of non-core assets and operating cash flow to de-lever the company.

John Paulson

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Stay away from other people's partners.

Amanda de Cadenet

PeopleAwayStayPartnersOther

The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.

Tommy Lee

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It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Robert Baden-Powell

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I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.

Mary Gaitskill

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Now everybody's sampling.

Missy Elliott

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