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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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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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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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.
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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
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I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn't have any transportation. We couldn't drive the car. He wouldn't even let us start the motor. We couldn't ride the horses, or the steers, or the sheep.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.
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The stage for our whole show is actually really interesting and a lot of fun. There's always something going on so we figure even the people who come up and don't know Big Time Rush love the show because there's always something going on, so that's what we love about it.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
