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Pete Townshend Quotes

My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.

Pete Townshend

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Father War Guitar Uncle Kind

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

Jimmy Swaggart

Poor Need Salvation Just Like Else

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

Joe Wright

Life Go Know Never Behave Film

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

John Denver

People Want Touch Just Entertain

I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

Melanie Scrofano

School People Me Saying Better You

I'm tired of being 51st in this country on the NEAP scores on fourth-grade math. We don't have but 50 states.

Robert J. Bentley

Tired Country Math Being States

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

Stella Young

Birthday Friend Home Broken Seven

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Robert Wyatt

Pressure Find Single Up Something

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

Rowan Atkinson

Time Down Nothing Ball Like Juggle

If I do a role where I have to lose weight, I can do that. I eat meat, fish, vegetables, and I lose it right away. But sometimes I do a role where I have to gain weight, and I can tell you I prefer that.

Monica Bellucci

Fish You Lose I Can Vegetables Meat

I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.

Luke Evans

Good Looking Enough Boy Never Fair

South Jersey is home to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, one of the finest military installations in the world, and it was my honor to represent the base and all of those who serve there.

Jon Runyan

Home World Honor Military Serve Who

Since I was a kid, I liked construction.

Ciputra

Construction Kid Liked Since