Tom Cruise Quotes
When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.
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I am a Buddhist.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.
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Like almost all others began with metaphysical discussions. The theory has advanced but the practical science is still in its infancy and the modern statesman is constantly short of facts on which he can base his speculations.
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Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.
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Nothing has really changed. We had bootleg albums in the '60s and today we have Internet file sharing. They just found a better way to do it -- get music for free. What's great about today is an artist has an opportunity to go direct to their audience without dealing with a middleman. People can go directly to the web for CDs, DVDs and downloads. I think that's the best thing that's happened, that people's music is being flashed around the world.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
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When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.
