Tom Hanks Quotes

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'

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• I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Liberty
  • Price

• There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Dream
  • Like
  • Ideas

• The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Internet
  • Media
  • News

• A dead shepherd brought tremendous chords from hellAnd bad the sheep carouse. Or so they said. Children in love with them brought early flowers And scattered them about, no two alike.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Children
  • Bad

• It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Hope
  • Understanding
  • Reflection

• George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than he could possibly help. But somewhere along the line, Americans began expecting their presidents to do more than just govern. They also had to make us laugh.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Help

• I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.

  

  Anne Robinson
  • She
  • Mother

• You don't sell as many records as you used to because of illegal downloads, but I think there are other ways you can make money through your music. Whether it's through merchandise or teaming up with other companies or brands or whatever, there are ways.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Up
  • Music
  • Money

• Your retirement comes before your children's tuition. That's because there's no financial aid for retirement, and there's still a good deal available for college.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Good
  • Children
  • College

• I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.

  

  Brett Ratner
  • Hate
  • Opinion

• People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

  

  Chris Brown
  • Women
  • Song
  • Girl

• Everyone is beautiful, everyone is perfect, and everyone is lovely.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect
  • Lovely

• Good day, fair maidens.

  

  Val Venis
  • Good

• It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

  

  William T. Wiley
  • Speak
  • Communicate
  • Languages

• Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Future
  • Wealth
  • Gift

• I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Children
  • High
  • Value

• When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Fear
  • Model

• I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars - speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era - and it was overwhelming. I don't think I've learned more faster in my life than when I worked on 'MadTV.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stars

• Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

  

  Bryan Callen
  • Women
  • Words
  • Edgy

• My instinct is to say it as I see it, being a little bit edgy and showing leadership on policy issues.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Leadership
  • Edgy

• I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Edgy
  • Capital E