Tom Cruise Quotes
When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
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Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.
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You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.
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By the way, you know, Mitt Romney and McCain, I don't agree with them, but they would have been okay. I could have been satisfied with them.
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The consequences of poor nutrition and a lack of exercise are serious.
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A car produces about one pound of CO2 per mile. There is no problem with collecting the CO2 in the tailpipe, but one might easily end up with a trailer hitched to the car for carrying all this CO2 back to the filling station. The gas burned from a 15-gallon tank would fill up five 60-inch-tall gas bottles.
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When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
