Tom Petty Quotes
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
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Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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Do me wrong, do me right,Tell me lies but hold me tight,Save your goodbyes for the morning light,But don't let me be lonely tonight.
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I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.
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When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
