Pete Townshend Quotes

I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

Pete Townshend

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Few people have the imagination for reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ImaginationPeopleRealityFew

Community banks are a crucial part of our economy and the fabric of our society.

Jerome Powell

CommunitySocietyEconomyFabricOur

One of the things I've always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties.

Stacey D'Erasmo

LoveCultureCuriosityLovedDesire

The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.

Steven Pinker

ImpactMindsHighLeftOurRelative

Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.

Simon Bird

PeopleAverageNormalFansLosers

In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and even the power to be.

Rollo May

PowerBehaviorRunAimRiskHuman

I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and the next - obsessed, I am sorry to admit, with the bicycles. Italy, after all, was a place where thousands of middle-aged men felt perfectly comfortable spending many hours a week in brightly colored spandex.

Michael Specter

FamilyMenI AmSorryWeekYear

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

Don DeLillo

ConstructionLookSoundMeanJust

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Bob Newhart

YouKnowKindLineHeadCount

It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once I've already recorded thoughts as this person, it's easier to just flip back through and be like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what she's thinking; this is what she's feeling.'

Brianna Hildebrand

CharacterDayI AmThoughtsThinking

I'm a big fan of horror, personally.

Annie Parisse

HorrorBigBig FanFanPersonally

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.

Anthony Doerr

BookEnoughWeekYouLuckyYears

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