Tom Petty Quotes
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.
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I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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The dependencies of inner and outer Mongolia are the bulwarks of China. The desert of Gobi, stretching for ten thousand li, is a barrier set by Heaven to the Russians, and if they seek to invade our borders, they will find it everywhere along the Northern frontier difficult and troublesome.
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The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
