Tom Hanks Quotes

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.

Tom Hanks

• Superman
• Good Man
• Spider-Man
• '60s
• 40s
• 50s

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• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

  

  T.I.
  • Reality
  • Television

• If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Powerful
  • Poverty
  • Company

• The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Long
  • War
  • Past

• Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Nice
  • Sometimes
  • Balance

• Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Want
  • Change
  • Improvement

• I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Famous
  • Graduates
  • William Morris

• I'm just as fragile and broken as anyone else at times. We all have to get through our stuff as best we can. Some of us have strong armour, some of us don't. Sometimes my armour has been very strong and sometimes it's been very fragile.

  

  Anastacia
  • Strong
  • Broken

• I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Work

• So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Game
  • Partner

• My eyesight is not good. You guys will see, in games you'll watch, I will have times where I don't see the catcher very well, especially in low-light conditions. I can get to about 20/40. That's about as good as they can get me with the stigmatisms and stuff I have going on.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Good
  • Light

• I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

  

  Danny Aiello
  • Up
  • Character
  • Father

• You do, mostly, in track, different sessions, sprinting and medium sessions in different style. You have to see that even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and you can still power the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.

  

  David Rudisha
  • Different
  • Power
  • Style

• We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

  

  Black Kettle
  • War
  • Dark
  • Sky

• We know in order to get where we want to be and do what we want to be doing, sometimes we have to do what we don't feel like doing. It takes hard work, and the band name is a constant reminder of that.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Work
  • Band

• To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

  

  Kelly Osbourne
  • Family
  • Rock
  • Shoes

• Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

  

  Kelly Osbourne
  • Amazing

• I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren't any.

  

  Darlene Love
  • Black
  • Singing

• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Work
  • Government
  • New

• There is a deficit; I'd like to see it lowered. But it's up to Congress to decide whether that should be done by higher taxes, lower spending or some combination.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Up
  • Done
  • Congress

• Te asusta el vacío, ¡y abres más los ojos!

  

  Antonio Porchia

• If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Superman
  • Good Man
  • Spider-Man