Tom Hanks Quotes

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

Tom Hanks

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• Christmas Movie
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• I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy parents; it wasn't forced upon me. They just said, 'See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don't, don't worry about it.' I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Small

• Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Agreement

• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Four
  • Daughters
  • Five

• You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Great
  • Job
  • Law

• It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

  

  Hal David
  • Work
  • Done
  • Song

• Contrast force and morality with each other. How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

  

  Auberon Herbert
  • Done
  • Free
  • Moral

• The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Time
  • Real
  • War

• Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Space
  • Unknown

• A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Music
  • Different
  • Soul

• In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.

  

  Jacques Dubochet

• I am a mystery to myself.

  

  Angelina Grimke

• Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

  

  Mark Hamill
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• I really can't imagine not singing again.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Singing

• You always have to look for something beautiful wherever you go.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Beautiful

• I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

  

  John Edwards
  • Son
  • April

• Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

  

  Qiu Jin
  • Women
  • Hero
  • Stuff

• The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Action

• A lot of us simply disengaged from politics altogether, but then we woke up and went wow, wait a minute. Why does that insane conversation get to dominate? Who made those people the creators of the conversation? And how can we start a new one?

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Love

• For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it's very hard to explain what I do. So I sometimes try and dumb it down as much as possible, so I'm changing what I do every time! So sometimes I'm in an Uber, and they ask, 'So what do you do?' and I say, 'I'm a comedian,' or, 'I'm a graphic designer.'

  

  Connor Franta
  • Time
  • Job
  • Dumb

• I have physical problems with listening to reggae. It's weird, I don't know why. It doesn't fit the way my heart pounds, and I feel very bad when I hear it. I have a neighbor--she's a waitress who comes home every night at four in the morning and she plays reggae very loud. I hate that. I can't sleep and I can't wake up either to that music.

  

  Nina Persson A Camp
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Night

• My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Western Front
  • Christmas Movie
  • All Quiet