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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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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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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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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I always loved to be a ham and be at the center of attention, always in everybody's faces.
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I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
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I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.
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Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.
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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
