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Tom Hanks
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 9
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I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.
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Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
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College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for.
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We are all God's animated cartoons.
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If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.
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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.
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Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.
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Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated.
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E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
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My work is really a blast. When it stops being a blast, then it ain't no fun no more!
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