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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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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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 think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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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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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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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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Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
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The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
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I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.
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I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
