Tom Hanks Quotes
It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.
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I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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Oh, the cat I worked with on 'Game of Thrones' was so badly behaved! It would never do anything it was supposed to do. I was like, 'Get your game together, cat. You're so bad.'
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It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.
