Tom Hanks Quotes

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Think
  • Media
  • YouTube

• The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Today
  • Same
  • Started

• I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.

  

  Victor Fung
  • World
  • Business
  • Future

• I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Life

• If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Work
  • Professional
  • Chef

• As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Professional

• I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • You
  • Trust
  • Artist

• I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Taller

• Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Character
  • Work Hard

• The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Time
  • Man
  • Relationship

• It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Team
  • End
  • Successful

• Wherever there is greater joy, there is the direction of everyone’s activity, because the innermost of everyone is really the lighted lamp of Total Knowledge, total organising power of knowledge, it’s all bliss, it’s not necessary for the people to suffer.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• This experimentation is the custom-and properly so-in those sciences where mathematical demonstrations are applied to natural phenomena, as is seen in the case of perspective, astronomy, mechanics, music, and others where the principles, once established by well-chosen experiments, become the foundations of the entire superstructure.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Music
  • Perspective

• The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Motherhood

• I been through the ringer, but they could do little to the middle finger.

  

  Eminem
  • Little
  • Middle

• If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

  

  Charles Fort
  • Beginning
  • Napoleon

• Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

  

  George Eliot
  • People
  • Life
  • Movement

• Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • American
  • Free

• My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.

  

  Anthony Anderson
  • Wife
  • Strength
  • Trusted

• Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Peace
  • Health

• I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Fantasy Island
  • Bosom Buddies