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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You've got to be realistic.
Patrick Rafter -
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.
Patrick Marber -
Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
Orhan Pamuk -
The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.
Tavi Gevinson -
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