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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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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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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I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
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I'm interested in teasing out the contemporary issues in what I'm working on, however old the piece might be, whenever I'm working on it.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
