As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
My favorite record of all time is Tom Petty’s ‘Wildflowers.’ I hold it as the standard – in terms of sonics, sequencing, and songs. It shows that making a complete record is important, rather than just making a single.
Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
I’ve spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he’s a damn good songwriter.
The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?
I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue… It wasn’t a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn’t like academia, I was ready to try TV.
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
When sports gets involved with petty politics from authorities and co-athletes, it becomes a nasty game.
When you go back and listen to 30 years of Tom Petty records, they are pretty consistent. I love that.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Apartheid – both petty and grand – is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
I’m not really good at worrying. I think I get that from my pops. He can be in some really dire straights and be a real optimist, so I don’t sweat the petty stuff.
The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.
I believe in what Richard Petty Motorsports is doing and their desire to win races.
When you can’t see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ‘culture.’
I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
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