Tom Petty Quotes
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
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I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without them, we are much poorer for it.
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If you want me to play second, I need time to get ready to play second. If you want me to play short, I need time.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
