Tom Hanks Quotes

I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.''

Tom Hanks

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• Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • May
  • Know
  • Yourself

• Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Faith
  • Identity
  • Young

• We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Religious
  • Thought
  • Place

• I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don't show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to take it one pitch at a time.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Game
  • Pretty

• I don't know if I'd do well in a structured, corporate environment. I'm very open. I share everything. I don't care. I don't have anything to hide. I'm very transparent that way.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Know
  • Environment
  • Care

• We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Plan
  • Planet
  • Environmental

• Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me - the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Power
  • Space
  • Architecture

• Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Remember
  • Door

• It always feels nice to be associated with a team you share a great bond with.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Great
  • Team
  • Nice

• Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Attention
  • Unique
  • Depression

• It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.

  

  Levi Woodbury
  • Knowledge
  • Justice
  • Decision

• I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.

  

  Lili Taylor
  • Good
  • Believe

• The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It was my father's war, and almost everyone in Nicaragua has lost somebody as a result of it. I couldn't go down there, being his daughter, and expect not to feel those people's wrath.

  

  Patti Davis
  • People
  • War
  • Father

• After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

  

  Katherine Jenkins

• I am sharing screen space with Ranbir Kapoor, but I am not exactly playing Sanjay Dutt's love interest, I am one of his encounters... It's just a cameo, but I would take my role as important, as it is a biopic on Sanjay Dutt, so whatever is important in his life is being shown in the film.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Life
  • Important
  • Space

• Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Job
  • Future
  • Worry

• I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.

  

  Chris Moneymaker
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

  

  John Irving
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Animal

• It wasn't the Mayflower. It wasn't the Love Boat. But it brought us to this magical country and reunited our family, so it was beautiful to me, ... Faith, hard work and the kindness of new friends carried my family forward and made it possible for me to become the first Asian-Pacific-American woman to serve in the Cabinet of a president of the United States.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature’s secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • History
  • Nature

• It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Knowledge
  • Practice
  • Works

• I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.''

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Love Boat
  • Fantasy Island