Tom Petty Quotes

At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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• My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Real
  • Me
  • Comedy

• Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Done
  • Night
  • Day

• You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Effort

• I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Citizens
  • Voters
  • Favour

• There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Pressure
  • Albums

• I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Trying
  • Slavery
  • Pay

• Why can't I be friends with somebody who's gay? Why not? You can miss out on a lot by being so small-minded and stereotypical about people. It's stupid.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Why
  • Friends

• I'll wear little dresses for a look and then it'll become only shorts for a while or only t-shirts for a while. So I go through different phases but I combine different things. I don't like things that draw too much attention. It's usually just things that complement me and aren't too loud.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Littles

• I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Real
  • Dream

• However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me.

  

  James Owen Sullivan Avenged Sevenfold
  • Paint
  • Bars

• But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Money
  • Records

• I generally had a pretty good relationship with Siouxsie. She can have a pretty sharp sense of humour, but can also be quite playful at times. I liked playing records with her and especially talking about Mick Ronson. She reckoned that whilst everyone admired Bowie as Ziggy, Mick was sexier.

  

  Jon Klein Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Relationship
  • Records
  • Humour

• I've tried Botox, I've tried them all. I'm definitely not one of those people who says, 'You shouldn't do this.' Everyone can individually do what they want. For all time women have wanted to, for the most part, look their best. It's just that what we have available to us today is what it is today and if you want to take advantage of it, yeah.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Records
  • Phonograph