Tom Petty Quotes
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children…
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Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.
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I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.