Tom Hanks Quotes
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My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
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I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
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I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
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Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).
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We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.
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There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.
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This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.
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We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).
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I thought we were despondent when we came out of that regular time, going into overtime and played like it the first three minutes, but we found some energy at the end.
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The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.
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Who can gauge all the ways in which the Gods who've created you craft your life?
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I never could see that delicacy of constitution is pretty, either in plants or women. No doubt there are many lovely flowers to be had by heat and constant coaxing, but then for each of these there are fifty others still lovelier that will gratefully grow in God's wholesome air and are blessed in return with a far greater intensity of scent and colour.
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The most dangerous infections of humans have always been those which have emerged from other species.
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The combination of operating efficiencies and higher prices resulted in the strongest quarter Alcoa has ever had.
