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.
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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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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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The stability of what's called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense precision suggests that we may just be stuck with it, and there may never be an overthrow of that.
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The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain, and sobbing with pain, i laugh.Because I know now. I know the answer. I know the truth. Oh,dead man, you are dead wrong, I tell him.Can't you see? The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I [do not. I do not.]
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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.
