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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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
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If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
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Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
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If you loved music, Lemmy was your friend, regardless of who you were or where you came from.
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I'm going to continue to speak my mind in the way that I do.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
