Tom Cruise Quotes
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
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I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories.
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I shall never flaunt the little learning that I have acquired through the care and help my father has given me. If I have learned anything, it is only because he took care to teach me. Had he not taken upon himself the trouble of instructing me, I would be as ignorant as many other children.
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I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.