Tom Petty Quotes
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
Quotes to Explore
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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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The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.
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Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.
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He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!
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I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.
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Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.
