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.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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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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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 was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.
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It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.
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When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?
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I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.
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For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
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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.
