Tom Hanks Quotes
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
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If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.
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I remember as a kid being cold a lot, and hungry sometimes. Wed go to bed with just cornbread and milk, and I remember wearing shoes with holes in the bottom. I remember having twine for shoestrings.
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We are awaiting the police assessment of the video.
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I was always torn between wanting whatever I pictured as a typical high school experience and that being just a part I wanted to play. I've written about this, but one of those typical high school experiences was drill team. Like, I just really wanted to wear a uniform and get on the bus and be part of this group. As an only child, the idea of blending in - and literally everyone being in sync and not standing out at all - felt like kind of a fun family thing.
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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
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Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.
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It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.
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God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.
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By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
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You don't need to know my name. You'll forget it soon enough.
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Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.
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Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels.
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I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?
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The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.