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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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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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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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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Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
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I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.
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Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
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You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
