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.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Music
  • Love
  • Film

• More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Fashion
  • Need
  • Everything

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Book
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hope

• That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Party
  • Language
  • Stronger

• 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.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• 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.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Interview

• 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.

  

  LaToya London
  • Family
  • American
  • House

• I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Company
  • New
  • New York

• I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Want
  • Action
  • Horror

• It's the irrational things that interest me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Me
  • Things
  • Interest

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Difficult
  • Realize
  • Governor

• 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.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Age
  • You

• I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Money
  • Never
  • Save

• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • China
  • Cyber

• You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Money
  • Funny
  • Realizing

• One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Summer
  • Secret
  • Delicate

• It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Company

• We got Sally Field onboard in Smokey and the Bandit and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment where we kind of looked at each other, and then we both turned and looked over at Hal [Needham]. He gave us a thumbs up and said, "Yeah!" And we kind of knew there was some magic going on.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Way
  • Filming
  • Bandit

• 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.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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  • Robin Hood