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
Quotes to Explore
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
Nastia Liukin -
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 -
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 -
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.
Irwin Winkler -
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
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I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D. -
So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.
Jeremy Irons -
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 -
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 -
To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.
Kelly Osbourne -
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
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I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.
Chiwetel Ejiofor -
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
Kazuo Ishiguro -
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out.
John Darnielle -
People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
Brendon Burchard -
Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.
Elizabeth Blackburn
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He didn't have a worry in the world back then. He was in paradise and didn't know it.
John Updike -
Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection and peacefully acquiesce to these pronouncements. And the result is that the dignity of the person is violated by such oppressive, intelligence-smothering forms of communication.
Robert H. Schuller -
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.
Laurie Helgoe -
I became a children's author by accident.
Jerry Spinelli -
Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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