Tom Petty Quotes
The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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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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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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Carpe per diem - seize the check.
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Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.
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I think the music has evolved from what it was on the first record. The first one was sort of about things going on around us growing up in a small town. This one is sort of personal to me.
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I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.
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The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.
