Tom Cruise Quotes
When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'
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I write what I write.
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Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.
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Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
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There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.
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When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.
