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 never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.
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It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.
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According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.
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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.
