Tom Petty Quotes
You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
Quotes to Explore
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
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Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.
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I have a lot to weigh: the basis of public service, which I've given my life to, a career choice. And most importantly, what I want to do as a parent. I know something about the White House. That, I assume, is one of the reasons that President-elect Obama would like me to serve. But I also know something about what it means to a family.
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I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
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I won't get over that in a hurry: my least favourite atrophied Hazel McWitch lookalike in the world, singing 'I just want to make love to you', right there on primetime telly. She has to be the only person on Earth who can take a lyric like that and make it seem like a blood-curdling threat without changing any of the words.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
