Tom Petty Quotes

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
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• Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.

  

  Bai Ling
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• Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

  

  Parris Glendening
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• I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.

  

  Laura Leighton
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• Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
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• I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

• What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
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• I had to come to terms with how I saw myself. I had to understand that I wasn't pretty or beautiful like most actresses and that I shouldn't care about whether other people found me attractive or not.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn't mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn't need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I'm not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades of Grey.

  

  Oliver Gaspirtz
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• When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.

  

  B. B. King
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• I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Wish
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• Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Person
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• I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
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• I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.

  

  William Bennett
  • Thinking
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• The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.

  

  Ralph Kiner
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• The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Understanding
  • Hearts
  • Crucified

• It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Cynical
  • Hall of Fame