Tom Petty Quotes
If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
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I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.
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What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."
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No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.
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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
