Tom Petty Quotes
I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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Toronto is amazing, it's one of my favourite cities to visit. Toronto and Montreal are just super dope places.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
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Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.
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I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
