Tom Hanks Quotes
And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
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My musical career was an accident.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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My goal is to continue to act and still be a professional kiteboarder.
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When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.
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My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.
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I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.
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And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.
