Toms Quotes - Page 16

• I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Political, Succeed

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• My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

  Jane Fonda

  Father, Character, Wrath

  "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi". www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

  Jodie Foster

  Girlfriend, Careers, Levels

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• I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

  Ellie Goulding

  Land, Feet, Males

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

  John Grisham

  Book, Kids, Naughty

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• Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

  Steven Pinker

  Character, Numbers, Historic

  "Surprising Family Trees!". abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

  Keanu Reeves

  Good Night, Thinking, Keys

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• I got a letter one day from somebody saying, `You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker is doing to your own paper [The Voice]?' And my 10-year-old son Tom, now with Williams & Connelly, put in a legal opinion, not - an opinion from the back of the car saying, `You know why? What are you, afraid?' So I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that Felker is destroying this paper.

  Nat Hentoff

  Son, Years, Voice

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff. This was the first wave of political correctness. The editors of the staff members came and said he must - he must, from now on, stop using `freshmen' and - in-as part of the policy of the paper. It had to be `freshperson.' Therefore, you don't - you're not discriminating against males or females. They were very fervent about that, and he was equally fervent about not politicizing language. So until he left, `freshmen' stayed.

  Nat Hentoff

  Editors, Political, Males

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• [I have ] two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a lot of very controversial cases. He has sued Sheriff Arpaio, the famous sheriff who keeps people in tents, gives them green bologna and the like. My other son Tom is with Williams & Connolly in Washington, where he does intellectual property defamation cases.

  Nat Hentoff

  Son, Boys, Phoenix

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003

  Anne Lamott

  Feet, April, Breathe

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• I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said that you can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Writing, Thinking

  "Bird by Bird". Book by Anne Lamott, 1994.

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• What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Uncles, Aunt, Talking

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• When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

  Lauren Bacall

  Talking, Acting, Actors

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, Hurt, Laughter

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• I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

  Anne Lamott

  Father, Real, Light

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• You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.

  N.D. Wilson

  Men, People, Black

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• Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.

  N.D. Wilson

  Mother, Numbers, Age

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.2, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

  J. D. Salinger

  Twelve, Sawyer

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• You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?" called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. "Above such brutality, are you?" "We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom," Dumbledore said calmly. "Merely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit - " "There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!" snarled Voldemort. "You are quite wrong," said Dumbledore, speaking as lightly as though they were discussing the matter over drinks. "Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Men, Weakness

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• I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

  Meg Cabot

  Spaceships, Staring, Shows

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• The death panel issue arose with Tom Daschle, who was originally going to be the Health Czar. Daschle became enamored with the British system and wrote a book about health care, which influenced President [Barack] Obama.

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Issues, President

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Dream, Witty

  "Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

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• New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Connections, Stories, Might

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.126, Penguin

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• I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.

  Mickey Rourke

  Care, Cruise, Therapy

  "K-Fed plays to an almost empty house". www.today.com. November 7, 2006.

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