You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
TOM PETTYIn a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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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 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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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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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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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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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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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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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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