Tom Petty Quotes

You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.

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• Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • World
  • Curiosity
  • Without

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Star
  • Show
  • Ship

• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Me
  • Best
  • Actor

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • You
  • Religious
  • Liberty

• There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • True
  • Idea
  • Achieve

• Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Story
  • Courtesy

• Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Flowers

• Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Kind
  • Same
  • Heroes

• I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • People
  • Like
  • View

• On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• There are a lot of critics out there, a lot of people that you want to prove wrong. But that's what your hard work is for in the offseason, spending hours and hours in the gym.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Work
  • Gym

• The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Challenge
  • Dry
  • Bone

• Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Words
  • You
  • Yourself

• It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Business

• Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

  

  Joan Chen

• There are over 170,000 pages of regulations in Washington, D.C. I want to streamline the rules in the federal government to basically allow businesses to grow without fear of burdensome federal regulations. That's a passion to me, regulatory reform.

  

  Jason T. Smith
  • Fear
  • Passion

• Judge not for your flaws, but for your Triumphs!

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Judge
  • Judging
  • Triumph

• No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Things
  • Matter
  • Become

• You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Dreaming
  • Trance