Tom Petty Quotes
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People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
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I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
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I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.
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We know as little of a supreme being as of Matter. But there is as little doubt of the existence of a supreme being as of Matter. The world beyond is reality, and experiential fact. We only don't understand it.
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'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
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I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday.
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I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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I was the ladies' man in school. I always had friends; people looked up to me.
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I'm a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I'm not going to get any taller.
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After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.
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Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.
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I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.
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The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
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We're so blessed to have an amazing catalog.
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I don't care about money.
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The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
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Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
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Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.
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Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.
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Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.
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Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.
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We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.
