Tom Petty Quotes
I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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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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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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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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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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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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I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.
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I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
