Tom Petty Quotes

There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

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• There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • American
  • Way
  • Medical

• I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Want
  • Place
  • Lady

• She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Great
  • Long
  • She

• Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Practice
  • Yourself

• But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • Feelings
  • Defeat

• I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Communism

• Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Woman

• If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Doing

• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Capitalism
  • Injustice

• I really don't know life without wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Know
  • Wrestling

• Success is really about your mindset.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Success
  • Mindset
  • Success Is

• Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Money
  • Help
  • Strong

• I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Good
  • Long
  • Brand

• Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Fighting
  • Fight
  • Blind

• When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Care
  • Example

• Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.

  

  Sally Jewell
  • People
  • Want
  • Outdoors

• I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • You
  • Racism
  • Now

• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • School
  • Myself

• The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Care

• I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Think
  • Smile
  • Rock And Roll