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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

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Tom Petty
Age: 66 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 20
Died: 2017
Died: October 2
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gainesville
Florida
Thomas Earl Petty
Charlie T. Wilbury
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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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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
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Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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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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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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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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If you don't run, you rust.
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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 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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She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.
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It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.
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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'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
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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'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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