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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

  

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• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• Most inventions are based on some prior history.

  

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• I'm quite gregarious. But when it comes to relationships, I mean, I'm no good at it. I suck at it. And people say I'm way too hard on myself, but I always feel like somebody else is going to say it if I don't. Why not just beat them to the punch so it doesn't hurt so much?

  

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• You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

  

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• I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they're waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.

  

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• During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

  

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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.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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