Toms Quotes - Page 20

• I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Crazy, Madness, Cruise

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• Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Stupid, People, Done

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• There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Rushing, Issues, People

  "I'm too sensitive. How can I toughen up?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. Jnuary 26, 2014.

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• There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for him, emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow.

  Vincent Canby

  Dream, Thinking, Play

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• I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

  Jason Newsted

  Growing Up, Kids, Play

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• Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

  James Lafferty

  Idols, Liking Someone, Someday

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• The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

  Peter Agre

  Cells, Enthusiasm, Energy

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• Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and his colleagues. The concept of this painting grew out of a number of forays into Algonquin over the years. From its conception I intended Algonquin to be a subtle tribute to Tom Thomson. But I also wanted it to be a response to the natural beauty that so typifies the grandeur of Ontario’s first provincial park.

  Ken Danby

  Strong, Growing Up, Numbers

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• Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.

  Tina Weymouth

  Attitude, People, Different

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• Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

  Richard Louv

  Reading, Book, Rivers

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.133, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Play, Economy, Cruise

  "Superstar agent's image savaged in court battle / Steinberg wins breach-of-contract suit, but at high PR cost" by C.W. Nevius, www.sfgate.com. November 18, 2002.

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• At this point I feel like I could go out and accomplish anything. I'd just love to see Will Smith's face if he found out I, Z-Braff, have the number one rap album in the country. That'd show that no-talent uncle tom.

  Zach Braff

  Country, Uncles, Rap

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• That's my No. 1 goal. I want to be part of (captain) Tom Lehman 's team.

  Fred Funk

  Team, Goal, Want

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• Tom Brady rises up to the occasion and plays well. That is just who he is.

  Deion Sanders

  Play, Wells, Brady

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• I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.

  Clarence Thomas

  Uncles, Years, Complaining

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• How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

  Burl Ives

  Liberty, Bells, Franklin

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• I wasn’t getting obliterated, but I was getting a kick. I was very method on that. That’s why I’d have gone along with it [if Tom had hit her]. But Tom was like: ‘Oh my God – I hope you don’t murder me!’

  Kierston Wareing

  Gone, Murder, Method

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• I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.

  Joan Rivers

  Shade, Looks, Window

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• Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

  Beatrix Potter

  Cat, Dust, Names

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “The Tale of Tom Kitten: Beatrix's Tales”, VM eBooks

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• My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now--to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.

  Alice McDermott

  Brother, Children, Parent

  Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone: A Novel”, p.192, Macmillan

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• [The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige.

  Barbara Pym

  Aunt, Laughing, Firsts

  Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl — in fact, the only girl in a cast of hundreds of smelly men! I, on the other hand, spent eight months with my face squashed up against someone else’s backside in one sodden trench after another. And it looks as if Tom might have got the girl again [in Colditz], damn his eyes.

  Damian Lewis

  Girl, Brother, Eye

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• If you’re thinking about coming to Tom Savini’s Special Make-Up Effects Program just STOP. Stop THINKING about it and just DO it. Aren’t we talking about making your dreams come true? Our students’ attitude is ‘This is school?’… because they are having so much fun every day doing what they love… and… they get a degree!

  Tom Savini

  Dream, Fun, Attitude

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• I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly

  Natalie Portman

  Beer, Sound, Looks

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• Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Mean, Men

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