Tom Petty Quotes
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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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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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.
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When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.
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Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.
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'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.
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We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.
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The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
