I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
TOM PETTYMy sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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I wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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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.
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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A rebel without a clue.
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