Tom Petty Quotes
I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Quotes to Explore
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson -
When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
FKA twigs -
I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
Larry King -
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse -
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell -
The less you have, the more you enjoy.
Carine Roitfeld
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
Ingrid Newkirk -
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
Park Chan-wook -
I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
Patricia Cornwell -
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler -
I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.
Tamara Ecclestone -
There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
Isaac Hayes
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I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.
G. Willow Wilson -
I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
Rachel McAdams -
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Oscar Levant -
People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
Park Chan-wook -
It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.
Balthazar Getty
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And then I say to myself that we should believe in that which we felt when we were strong and happy rather than in that which we feel when we are sick and sad. Do you not think, Judith, that one is more truly oneself in times of joy than in times of sorrow?
Elizabeth Goudge -
When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
Iman -
I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers