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Pete Townshend Quotes

I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.

Pete Townshend

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Style Art School Start Think Guitar

If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I've enjoyed watching some of the things he's done, that's all I can hope for.

Joe Mantegna

Hope Day People End Of The Day End

I've had lots of wonderful people help motivate me over the years to work hard and write.

Jennine Capó Crucet

Work People Me Work Hard Help Write

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Work Success Research Thought Better

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

Steve Forbes

Always Psychology Long-Term Market

You don't really know much until you get to be 70.

Sloan Wilson

You Know Get Much Really Until

I've been so lucky to do different things. The world in which 'Westworld' takes place is so unique and bizarre, and it's really interesting to explore that whole universe with the language and brutality going on there. With 'Inferno,' there's the Dan Brown mystery.

Sidse Babett Knudsen

World Language Universe Interesting

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Roone Arledge

Business Police Fool People Better

It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know.

Martin Rees

Know Important Everyone Still Much

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men End Wealth Changes Only Many

The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

Douglas Rushkoff

Moment Experience Focus Forward End

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

Deborah Ellis

Daily Joy People Think Fall Find

I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing - I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas.

Brian Skerry

Water Beach Child Think Remember