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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Tom Petty

Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
TOM PETTY

Forgiveness Key Redeem
Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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Dreams Myself Time World
I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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Love Music Myself Play Tired
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
At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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Rainbow Time Weather
George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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Hug Kind Love Man Yourself
In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
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Myself Stand World
You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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Wings World Yourself
I got my own way of praying.
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Myself Prayer Way
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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Diamond King Money Sound
We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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Bad Grant Record Thinking
Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I’ll get you back someday.
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Day Fade Myself Rock
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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Communication Healing Life Magic Move Music Myself Reality
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.
TOM PETTY

Mindset Myself 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
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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Abandonment Lose Yourself
There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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Choice Freedom Human Voice
If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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Myself Play Work
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
I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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Alone Band Hands Myself Respect Treat Uncomfortable
You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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Hell Job Yourself
I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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Myself Night Tired Worry
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
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
When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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Generation Hate Kill Sister Yourself
Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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Each Other Music People Perfection Soul
Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
TOM PETTY

Dreams Leadership Mystery Work

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