Tom Hanks Quotes
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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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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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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.
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When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'
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It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.
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Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.
