Tom Hanks Quotes
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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I started out doing musicals.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls.
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Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.
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Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.
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I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
