Tom Petty Quotes
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach out to people, when you meet with others and share their thoughts and sufferings, infinite compassion and wisdom well up within your heart. Your life is transformed.
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Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
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Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
