Tom Petty Quotes

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

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• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
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• Well who's black and what is a black person?

  

  Pam Grier
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  • Person
  • Well

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
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  • Dying
  • For Her

• Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Time
  • World
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• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  

  Sally Ride
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• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
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• He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Produce
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• I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Home
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• A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • World
  • Great
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• While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

  

  Warren Littlefield
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• If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

  

  Larry Flynt
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• I've played sports and been active my whole life.

  

  Warren Christie
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Active

• My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Father
  • Universe
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• Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.

  

  Naya Rivera
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• I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down.

  

  Malcolm David Kelley
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• When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off the air, I was 28 years old, married with two kids. At that point I felt I really wanted to be mommy to my children. But I found that after a year and a half, I really missed the part of myself that was an actress.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Children
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  • Kids

• A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Time
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• Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

  

  David Remnick

• In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.

  

  Dan Coats
  • World
  • America
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• I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.

  

  Brian Helgeland
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• I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

  

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