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Me Quotes by Pete Townshend
- Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man…
- The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really…
- A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
- Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything,…
- Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.
- When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been…
- I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
- Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk…
- As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no…
- I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale