Tina L. Hook quote: "My foray into the world of adults had taught me that very few people are willing to tell you the truth. It is something reserved only for the people who loved you the most unconditionally, the ones who were willing to absorb the denial and resentment that often accompanied it. It is a thankless job, that of the truth-teller."

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK

The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
SYDNEY HOOK

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation...
HAROLD HOOK

Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose...
DR. HOOK

They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes...
PETER HOOK

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
SIDNEY HOOK

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; cap...
SIDNEY HOOK

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
SIDNEY HOOK

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
SIDNEY HOOK

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his ...
SIDNEY HOOK

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
SIDNEY HOOK

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human valu...
SIDNEY HOOK

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher...
SIDNEY HOOK

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
SIDNEY HOOK

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
SIDNEY HOOK

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out a...
PETER HOOK

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t...
SIDNEY HOOK

Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I...
PETER HOOK

I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influe...
PETER HOOK

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'
PETER HOOK

To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division toget...
PETER HOOK

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
THEODORE HOOK

A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, The squeamish folks may cross by l...
THEODORE HOOK

I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
PETER HOOK

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.
PETER HOOK

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not...
PETER HOOK

I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic en...
PETER HOOK

America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner'...
PETER HOOK

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
PETER HOOK

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
PETER HOOK

We're still working on it. We've just been on a mammoth hunt for a singer. Because of the singers th...
PETER HOOK

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; cap...
SIDNEY HOOK

The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that th...
PETER HOOK

I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along ...
PETER HOOK

New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.
PETER HOOK

Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out the...
PETER HOOK

'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the firs...
PETER HOOK

When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely ...
PETER HOOK

Originally, I didn't play any New Order when I deejayed. I suppose it comes from being a little ...
PETER HOOK

The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of th...
PETER HOOK

I don't pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it's an...
PETER HOOK

My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
PETER HOOK

Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
PETER HOOK

I've been very grateful and humbled by the fact that young people really dig Joy Division's ...
PETER HOOK

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his argu...
SIDNEY HOOK

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant
SIDNEY HOOK

It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recogniza...
SIDNEY HOOK

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t...
SIDNEY HOOK

We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the ...
PETER HOOK

Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to ...
PETER HOOK

One of the great misconceptions is that people who have STDs know they have them, ... That is absolu...
EDWARD HOOK

It's like going to buy potato chips at the store. You've got 50 different kinds to buy, and if your ...
EDWARD HOOK

We use them every day,
EDWARD HOOK

Both doctors and patients are waiting for the other person to raise the subject and as a result nobo...
EDWARD HOOK

Like the time I threw out Pete Murphy of Bauhaus for saying those six immortal words to Slim when he...
PETER HOOK

For the first 18 months of Joy Division, we used our jobs to fund the band. We'd all chip in thr...
PETER HOOK

There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.
PETER HOOK

There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn...
PETER HOOK

When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're y...
PETER HOOK

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done a...
PETER HOOK

When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.
PETER HOOK

You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No ...
PETER HOOK

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitut...
SIDNEY HOOK

Reggie looks good walking across the parking lot. I always told him even if he got hurt playing foot...
DONNIE VAN HOOK

It's almost like an academy.
DONNIE VAN HOOK

I'm not that good looking... nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and ...
TINA FEY

It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who...
TINA YOTHERS

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.
TINA TURNER

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
TINA YOTHERS

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take a...
TINA WEYMOUTH

What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destr...
TINA BROWN

You can point any kind of laser at my face, but I don't think Botox is for me. I think it is bad...
TINA FEY

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
TINA TURNER

Orion:“Where shall I shoot him?”
Eros grinned. “Considering he won’t even feel the arro...
TINA FOLSOM

...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's bus...
TINA FEY

Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio arou...
TINA FEY

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In wha...
TINA FEY

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.
TINA FEY

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . w...
TINA TURNER

Physical strength in a woman -- that's what I am.
TINA TURNER

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.
TINA FEY

Almost everyone first realized they were becoming a grown woman when some dude did something nasty t...
TINA FEY

If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you...
TINA FEY

When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the fol...
TINA FEY

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfe...
TINA FEY

Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They we...
TINA FEY

I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with d...
TINA YOTHERS

People never cease to amaze me.
TINA YOTHERS

Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definitio...
TINA BROWN

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of ...
TINA FEY

'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, high...
TINA BROWN

If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking acto...
TINA FEY

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
TINA TURNER

Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.
TINA BROWN

I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is...
TINA TURNER

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.
TINA TURNER

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
TINA TURNER

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
TINA TURNER

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
TINA TURNER

I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?...
TINA TURNER

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from ...
TINA TURNER

Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.
TINA TURNER

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
TINA TURNER

But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the rig...
TINA TURNER

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking abo...
TINA TURNER

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.
TINA TURNER

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, th...
TINA TURNER

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.
TINA TURNER

I am attracted to myths.
TINA TURNER

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside o...
TINA TURNER

As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you ca...
TINA TURNER

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an accepta...
TINA TURNER

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But t...
TINA TURNER

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
TINA TURNER

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in somethi...
TINA TURNER

Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say yo...
TINA TURNER

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.
TINA TURNER

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... ...
TINA TURNER

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people w...
TINA FEY

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I d...
TINA TURNER

When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Ro...
TINA FEY

When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was ...
TINA FEY

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such...
TINA BROWN

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come throu...
TINA YOTHERS

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a...
TINA FEY

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady a...
TINA FEY

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and...
TINA BROWN

Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political ...
TINA BROWN

Magazine articles are the new books.
TINA BROWN

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play...
TINA WEYMOUTH

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Ara...
TINA BROWN

It was Barry Diller's idea to start 'The Daily Beast,' and he has turned out to be the b...
TINA BROWN

Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being ba...
TINA BROWN

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat y...
TINA FEY

I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the ba...
TINA FEY

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers...
TINA BROWN

Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a wh...
TINA BROWN

Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. U...
TINA FEY

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.
TINA BROWN

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments -...
TINA TURNER

Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993.
TINA BROWN

No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing ...
TINA BROWN

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' ...
TINA BROWN

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, ...
TINA BROWN

When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I...
TINA FEY

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.
TINA TURNER

Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reput...
TINA BROWN

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that t...
TINA BROWN

To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has bee...
TINA BROWN

For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction tha...
TINA BROWN

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, a...
TINA FEY

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with m...
TINA FEY

Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'
TINA BROWN

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that ...
TINA BROWN

Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant.
TINA BROWN

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women -...
TINA FEY

I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and tr...
TINA FEY

Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his gre...
TINA BROWN

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.
TINA FEY

It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.
TINA FEY

If you are capable people are happy to play with you.
TINA FEY

If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.
TINA FEY

When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. no one e...
TINA FEY

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don't just sit around raising questions and pointing ...
TINA FEY

To me YES, AND means don't be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you're adding something to the ...
TINA FEY

It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you loo...
TINA FEY

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be ...
TINA FEY

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. In o...
TINA FEY

I'll be ready for it to happen and that way it won't happen. It's a burden, being able to control si...
TINA FEY

I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even...
TINA FEY

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.
TINA FEY

You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, ...
TINA FEY

When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays...
TINA FEY

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something th...
TINA TURNER

The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ...
TINA BROWN

For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it w...
TINA FEY

'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism.
TINA BROWN

Holly got much stronger as the game went on. Like Beth, she picked her corners, but also overpowered...
TINA DEESE

The digital explosion has been so explosive.
TINA BROWN

When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from...
TINA BROWN

My favorite day at '30 Rock' is Thursday when the show airs. At lunch, we screen the episode...
TINA FEY

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.
TINA FEY

Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still ...
TINA BROWN

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than o...
TINA BROWN

I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for presid...
TINA BROWN

It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the bankin...
TINA BROWN

All launch preparations for all three launches are on hold at this point.
TINA LANGE

In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched liv...
TINA BROWN

I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people.
TINA YOTHERS

For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How c...
TINA BROWN

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people ...
TINA TURNER

Even common greens, like spinach, are misunderstood. As a group, they are overlooked, but they add s...
TINA KUEHN

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
TINA BROWN

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the ...
TINA TURNER

[Retirement could be tough for the self-admitted workaholic, who received a lifetime achievement awa...
TINA TURNER

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star,
TINA TURNER

'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books.
TINA BROWN

When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taki...
TINA WEYMOUTH

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though ...
TINA FEY

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