Tom Cruise Quotes
In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
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I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.
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There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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I am attracted to the dark side of life!
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Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
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I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
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Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
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My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'
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My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.
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We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
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Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
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In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!
