Tom Petty Quotes
So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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And yet it moves.
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I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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I did exhibitions with the Surrealists in Paris, c. 1929 because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.
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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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She said that all the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have always tried to keep them closed.
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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.
