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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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
