Tom Petty Quotes
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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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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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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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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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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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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For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.
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I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.
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I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.
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My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.
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Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ...
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
