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Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them
Pete Townshend
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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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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 reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
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I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
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Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.
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