Tom Petty Quotes
Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
Quotes to Explore
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
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I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.
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You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
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I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
