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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There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.
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What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.
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Privilege is a made up metric used to silence and repress. We are all different, and that is ok. We listen to individuals and help each other based on individual strengths and needs. We do not generalize based on skin color, bigot.
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People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'
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Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
