Tom Petty Quotes
I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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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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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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It's smart. If you are going to make an investment of millions and millions of dollars, you would research them.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.
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I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
