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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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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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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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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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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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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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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I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.
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In anything I do I try to stay true to myself because I think that's what matters most, and then the challenge is getting all these different sides of my personality to fit together in one box. It isn't an easy task. But that's basically what the end result represents.
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What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
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I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
