Tom Hanks Quotes
I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. Yet I have a reputation for being cooperative with the press. That's because when I do give an interview, I'm willing to tell the truth about what I do for a living and how goofy it is sometimes - and how volatile it can also be.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I am just one human being.
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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I like routine.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.
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I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.
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I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
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'My Family Recipe Rocks' is on the Live Well Network, and we go to people's homes and watch them cook.
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I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. Yet I have a reputation for being cooperative with the press. That's because when I do give an interview, I'm willing to tell the truth about what I do for a living and how goofy it is sometimes - and how volatile it can also be.
