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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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
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The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
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For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.
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For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
