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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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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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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I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
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It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
