I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
TOM PETTYWhen you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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 don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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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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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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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 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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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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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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My 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.
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I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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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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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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