Tom Petty Quotes

He (George Harrison) told me he really, really admired John Lennon. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Making Money

• Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • People
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• I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter.

  

  Pattie Boyd
  • Up
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• Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

  

  Elton Gallegly

• I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

  

  Brad Dourif

• Keep your eye on what you're responsible to and what you're responsible for, and that'll keep you right.

  

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• At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
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• O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

  

  Sara Willis
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• Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.

  

  Al Hirschfeld
  • Fall
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• Some years ago our Japanese counterparts asked us to resume the discussions of the issue and so we did meeting them halfway. Over the passed couple of years the contacts were practically frozen on the initiative of the Japanese side, not ours. At the same time, presently our partners have expressed their eagerness to resume discussions on this issue [the Kuril Islands].

  

  Vladimir Putin
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• Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues...

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
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• I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.

  

  Halston Sage
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• I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Children
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• A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Soviet
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• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Up
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• Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• I think there were moments on Snow White where I wished there was a little bit more of a sick humor toward Ravenna. But maybe the tone of the movie couldn't really support that. So you always have to kind of figure out where you are and adapt to it. Kristen Stewart

  

  Kristen Stewart
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• I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom.

  

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• He (George Harrison) told me he really, really admired John Lennon. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Admired
  • John Lennon
  • George Harrison