"But television, when I was doing it, was……" — Tom Hanks
"But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you."
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129 Quotes by Tom Hanks
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The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
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I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I…
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The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.
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Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy.…
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Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe.…
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I think it's better to feel good than to look good.
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It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to…
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Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our…
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As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now…
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The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
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I know what I have to do now, I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who…
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I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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