Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
TOM PETTYIf you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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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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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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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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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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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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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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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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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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It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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