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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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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Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument.
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Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.
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Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night.
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The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.
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It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.
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Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.
