Tom Hanks Quotes
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I'm influenced by all types of music.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.
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If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.
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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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To be honest, makeup is a big part of what I do for a living.
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We need space to discuss unspoken, uncomfortable dark truths.
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I've always loved cemeteries since I was a kid. They're very calm.
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I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best endings are those that emerge only after I've thought long and hard about the various ways the story might end. Then I choose the ending that seems surprising yet somehow inevitable.
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My work is really a blast. When it stops being a blast, then it ain't no fun no more!
