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Pete Townshend

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FRED ARMISEN Backstage I met Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, all these people, even (former President) Bill Clinto...
RUSTY ANDERSON In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
NICHOLSON BAKER As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but...
BERNARD SUMNER What we found, to our pleasant surprise, was that extremely low-birth-weight babies - although one-q...
DR SAROJ SAIGAL What we found, to our pleasant surprise, was that extremely low-birth-weight babies -- although one-...
DR. SAROJ SAIGAL Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
LOUISE J. KAPLAN Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirem...
DAVID GILL My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to a...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got do...
JANE RIDLEY My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well.
ZACK LOVE Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in...
UWE REINHARDT Everything from the music to our clothes was truly authentic. Lisa and I were in my basement spray p...
ROZONDA THOMAS This chip was designed specifically for smartphones , and is an integral part of Intel's mobile stra...
AMY MARTIN The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas T...
UTAH PHILLIPS I wanted to be a businesswoman from as early as I can remember, and specifically, my real passion wa...
IVANKA TRUMP Fergie really threw the ball well tonight. We got six strong innings from him. It was 10-2 when we b...
JAMES FRISBEE I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment.
LEONARD NIMOY If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely...
JOHN GRANT Although the NAEP test is very important, it was not designed to make comparisons with individual st...
DENNIS KENNEDY Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act; When they sow that act, they will reap a habit...
PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ...
GARY F EVANS... Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat...
GLENN BECK When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I el...
LINDA HUNT I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back ag...
HENRY ROLLINS My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, ...
SHREYA GHOSHAL It's the last thing Pete needed, ... Pete had his own troubles, gone through his cleansing period. W...
JEFF RUBY 2005 was my best year ever. Although for the past few years I've been able to say that every year.
BARRY BAKER I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dat...
KIESZA I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; sh...
KATY B We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're v...
KEITH EMERSON I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.
KEITH EMERSON I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
KEITH EMERSON Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an except...
L'WREN SCOTT Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
TANYA TUCKER College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increase...
ERIK PAULSEN I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m...
PATRICK DEWITT I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of we...
SYDNEY POLLACK But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER We all have our family issues from time to time.
AJA NAOMI KING The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting ev...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, c...
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK My three boys are commuting to school from our hotel. Although my son Michael thought it was strange...
COLLEEN MOORE I told (Mississippi athletic director Pete Boone and Thomas) once our season was over, they could ta...
ALLEN WARD Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help w...
EMILY GIFFIN My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.
KERRI STRUG More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma....
S. E. HINTON Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep...
MALCOLM ARNOLD By the time people reach adulthood, they really don't want to have acne. In adolescence, everybody s...
KRISTINE ROMINE By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the ba...
SHERI L. DEW I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic chi...
JAMES NESBITT You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
S. T. JOSHI Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.
ANWAR ROBINSON Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.
ESTHER WILLIAMS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms ...
GORDON BROWN I was trying to keep my head about me, although inside, I was screaming.
ANNETTE BROWN It is past time for the DOT to do something about this dangerous intersection. Because of the proble...
FRANK HOWELL It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children c...
JANET NAPOLITANO I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.
DAVID AMRAM Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know ...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice s...
ALEX FLINN Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone
JOHN CIARDI There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send ...
DAN REYNOLDS I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my...
DONALD JOHANSON I was a teenage godmother.
THERESA MAY What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of ...
ALISON GOPNIK [But the film] wasn't designed specifically to be a political statement, ... I didn't make the film ...
NICK CLOONEY The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the the...
CARY-HIROYUKI TAGAWA I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. ...
DAVID COOK 'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, so...
LIBBA BRAY Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.
ANWAR ROBINSON I was going very well until my hamstring tightened and I'm disappointed with third, although I beat ...
JASON GARDENER I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion...
TIM CAHILL Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame...
ANDREA BOCELLI I think I was raised on all types of music. Of course there was the American pop music. There was al...
JOSE MATEO I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
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PETE GALLEGO In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in th...
PETE SAMPRAS Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support ...
PETE WENTZ Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, dili...
PETE HAMILL I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.
PETE WENTZ If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I...
PETE BURNS I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a ge...
PETE ROSE Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth ...
PETE MCCLOSKEY I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it ma...
PETE SEEGER Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
PETE SEEGER I think the Internet is uniquely suited to this free market idea: that everyone on the Internet that...
PETE ASHDOWN Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation sys...
PETE JOHNSON Not everybody has to sing the melody.
PETE SEEGER Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.
PETE ROSE It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
PETE ROSE People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make ...
PETE INCAVIGLIA The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.
PETE DYE You can never overlook a team in this conference. You can never do that.
PETE ASADOURIAN We're in a pretty good position, we need three wins to attain one of main goals, to make the tournam...
PETE ASADOURIAN Berlin's a great team. They're good, it's post-season play and a lot of our guys haven't been in the...
PETE ASADOURIAN Defense got us here and defense is going to carry us through. We've been emphasizing defense since D...
PETE ASADOURIAN We didn't even know. We came out. The boys took the floor early and we heard all the commotion. It w...
PETE ASADOURIAN We were getting shots off but nothing was falling for us early. I think guys came out a little tight...
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