Tom Petty Quotes

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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Break Different Health Important Old Pain Start Yourself
I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Incredible Lazy Myself
Some grow young, some grow cold.
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Cold Growth Young
I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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Authority Development Myself Personality Problem Time
The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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Faith Hard Heart Part Yourself
Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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Finding Goodness Love Yourself
I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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Important Myself Offering Thinking
You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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Hell Job Yourself
Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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Guitar Sing Wind
Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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Herself Night
Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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Born Children Hurricane Lost
I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
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Hope Ideal Myself Thinking Weird
That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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Drugs Fun Pay Stupidity Thinking
I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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Audience Happiness Ideas Myself
If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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Imagination Sale Yourself
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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Finding Happiness Love Person Work Yourself
No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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Guitar Instrument Learning Play
I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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Children Happiness Job Love Passion Yourself
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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Hope Passion Pay Success Yourself
A rebel without a clue.
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One Liner Rebel
The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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Herself Liquid Naked Poison Time
I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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Clear Myself Reality Time
The waiting is the hardest part.
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Hard One Liner Patience
You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Boat Feeling Flower Freedom Love Sea Yourself
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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Health Mental Physical Thinking
I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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Cool Light Myself Problem
There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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Choice Freedom Human Voice

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