Tom Petty Quotes
Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
Quotes to Explore
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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Nothing should be noticed.
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I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
