Tom Hardy Quotes

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

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• Islam means peace.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Peace
  • Means
  • Islam

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Clothes

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Why

• I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Like
  • Little
  • Gymnast

• The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Responsible
  • Genes

• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Why

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Model
  • Musicians

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Always
  • Chess
  • Take

• My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • College

• I was possessed by London.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • London
  • Possessed

• By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Change
  • Yourself

• When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • School
  • Play

• Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Men
  • Live
  • Bread

• I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything that resembled that... then I started 'The Groundlings', so I went to a show and it was very much like 'Second City'. I was so impressed that that same night I went backstage and I went up to the funniest person there.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Up
  • Night
  • City

• Nobody, no family, is above the law.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Family
  • Law

• I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

  

  Walt Disney
  • God
  • Live
  • Family

• One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • People
  • Music
  • Single

• I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Family
  • Tattoos