Tom Petty Quotes
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
Quotes to Explore
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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I always think that today is the best day that there's ever been. The song that I'm working on is always the best song I've ever written. The woman I'm looking at is the most incomprehensibly beautiful woman I've ever seen. These dogs that I have now are, by far, the best dogs I've ever had - although, so were the last pair of dogs I had.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.
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Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.
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Whenever you say that homophobia is stupid, you just get called gay.
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Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
