Tom Petty Quotes
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
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Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.
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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
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People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!
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It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
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My dear, my better half
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
