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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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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He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
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Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.
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Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?
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Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
