Tom Petty Quotes
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.
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Shady's great; I love Shady Records.
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I went bald when I was 18. My father cried. He cried about many things. But it allowed me to play older men in summer stock.
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
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Male say they're looking for a girl just like the girl who married dear old dad, but what they really want, and usually get, is an empty-headed little chick who's very young and very physical -and very submissive.
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No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?
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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
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This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.
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I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman.
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An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
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Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.
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You must feel attractive to be attractive.
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God made saints out of far worse people than you.
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A violet on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way. Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed.
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One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".
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I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race.
