Tom Hanks Quotes
I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up. But you also have to educate, because people want to discover specific things about a world unlike their own - whether it's how hard it is to go to the moon or how scary it is to be on Omaha Beach.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
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I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.
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I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.
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Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
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I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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Joys are bubble-like - what makes them bursts them too.
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As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves.
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So acknowledge here to yourself, ‘I am unique, and while there may be someone who is better than me at this or that, it doesn’t matter because they’re not me. So no matter what, they’ll never do it like me because that’s impossible.’ So embrace the quirks, embrace your individuality, embrace where you are in life. No one else is like you, and that is special, and that is unique.
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The majority is wicked.
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Who asks who out on the date? Who's supposed to pay for dinner? Who chooses where you go? Both partners should be involved in these discussions. If we want to be treated as equals, don't put yourself in a position where you set yourself up to not be equal.
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This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.
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I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.
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I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up. But you also have to educate, because people want to discover specific things about a world unlike their own - whether it's how hard it is to go to the moon or how scary it is to be on Omaha Beach.
