Tom Hanks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!
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Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.
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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
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I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.
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I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.
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The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.
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Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.
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America is not at war with Islam. And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.
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A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.
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Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.
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Shopping turns me off.
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The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
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Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.
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Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.
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I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
