Tom Petty Quotes
I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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The one thing you can control is effort.
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I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
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Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
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If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'
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I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.
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My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
