Tom Hanks Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.
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One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.
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The only two things that I think about in life is my family and golf. That's all I want to think about.
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Some things in life need to be mysterious. Sometimes you need to just keep walking. … It’s hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and sending them out to the world and thinking, oh, much good will come of that.
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
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How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks?
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I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.
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Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
