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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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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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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What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one – only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
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People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
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I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.
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It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
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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.
