"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
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"Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.“
-Tom Petty
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"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music."
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"When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain."
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"TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. 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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"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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"The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it."
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"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."
-John Steinbeck
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas A. Edison
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