Tom Hanks Quotes
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.
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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
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Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.
