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.
TOM PETTYBuy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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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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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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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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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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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