Tom Petty Quotes
You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Quotes to Explore
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
Ursus Wehrli -
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland -
I am a very reclusive, private person.
Camille Paglia -
The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
Felicity Kendal -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba -
The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
Barbara Amiel -
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
Ed Markey -
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
Radha Mitchell -
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi -
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Fareed Zakaria -
I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
Aaron Rodgers -
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
Fiona Shaw -
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando -
I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
Questlove
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I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
Kiana Tom -
In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.
Arthur Rankin, Jr. -
I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
Beth Gibbons Portishead -
The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.
Charles W. Pickering -
I work much better in sunshine. It's drizzle and grayness that I don't like.
Lucy Davis -
You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers