Tom Cruise Quotes
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
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Teaching is in my blood.
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The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
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For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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There's a laundry list of reasons why not to borrow from your 401(k). While the money is on loan, it's not working for you - and if you leave your job, you'll have to pay it back in 60 days or treat it as a taxable withdrawal.
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Part of doing good work is caring deeply about it, believing in what you're doing, and getting incredibly attached to the characters that you're playing, the stories you're telling, and the people you're working with.
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To minimize market uncertainty and achieve the maximum effect of its policies, the Federal Reserve is committed to providing the public as much information as possible about the uses of its balance sheet, plans regarding future uses of its balance sheet, and the criteria on which the relevant decisions are based.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.
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They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.
