Tom Hanks Quotes
The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It is so much easier to profit from celebrating the worst aspects of ourselves. Acting strikes me as the antithesis of that. We can examine the worst aspects of ourselves, but we don't have to celebrate them.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.
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I train to be the champion.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
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I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.
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When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.
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History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
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The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It is so much easier to profit from celebrating the worst aspects of ourselves. Acting strikes me as the antithesis of that. We can examine the worst aspects of ourselves, but we don't have to celebrate them.
