#pete

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#good #green #guitar #i #john

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#head #him #hindsight #i #incompetent

I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#anything #bring #compete #down #felt

Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world. ↗

— Will McDonough

#american public #biggest #bowl #creating #event

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#atm #before #characters #chinese #competed

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#compete #else #go #gymnastics #i

And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#as far as #far #favorite #go #peter

I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing. ↗

— Steve Martin

#basic #book #down #earl #get

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#beauty #compete #effort #flowers #never

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world. ↗

— David Miliband

#change #compete #culture #disruptive #economic