Tom Hanks Quotes
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
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Trevor Horn has worked with some of the biggest stars there is. And he was happy to do a record with me. He's worked with some amazing people, and then there's little old me walking in.
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I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
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Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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A great manager is someone who says, 'You come to work with me, and I'll help you be as successful as possible; I'll help you grow. I'll help you make sure you're in the right role; I'll provide the relationship for you to understand and know yourself. And I want you to be more successful than me.'
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If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
