Tom Petty Quotes
The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
Quotes to Explore
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
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Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.
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I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
