Tom Petty Quotes
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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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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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I've been very lucky.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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There are pros and cons to everything but especially with what I have chosen. There are cons - the privacy level and everything that comes with it - but I feel there are a lot more pros. And I am doing what I love to do, so I am not complaining at all.
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It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
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The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
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She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.
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I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.
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When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum.
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I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.
