Tom Cruise Quotes

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

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• I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Ideas
  • Try
  • Handle

• I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Going

• At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • You
  • Back
  • Three

• In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Friends
  • Years
  • California

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Weapons

• I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Name

• When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Respect
  • Practice
  • Thankful

• All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Parents
  • Change
  • Gay

• Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mission

• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Sin
  • Lie
  • Tools

• The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

  

  Irving Penn
  • World
  • May
  • Interesting

• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Best

• As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Data
  • Karma
  • Yogi

• I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Made

• Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.

  

  Kathy Sierra
  • Want
  • Give
  • Actually

• If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World

• That's the only interaction I have with people, those talking shows. Most of the people in my phone book are artists, management, producers, engineers. I don't ever call people with, "Hi! How are you?" I say, "How are you? Do you have that 16/30 ready? When do you want me to come into the studio?" That's what I do.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Book
  • Artist

• I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Give
  • Interested