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1. "I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism." ~ Tom Hanks
2. "Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week." ~ Tom Hanks
3. "I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me." ~ Tom Hanks
4. "And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner." ~ Tom Hanks
5. "But actors with political views are a dime a dozen." ~ Tom Hanks
6. "But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it." ~ Tom Hanks
7. "If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up." ~ Tom Hanks
8. "There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while." ~ Tom Hanks
9. "As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out." ~ Tom Hanks
10. "Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day." ~ Tom Hanks
11. "I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good." ~ Tom Hanks
12. "I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible." ~ Tom Hanks
13. "Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk." ~ Tom Hanks
14. "A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown." ~ Tom Hanks
15. "If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay." ~ Tom Hanks
16. "Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day." ~ Tom Hanks
17. "I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood." ~ Tom Hanks
18. "...childish, selfish, immature - that's right, I am. But do you know how much money I make for thinking this way?" ~ Tom Hanks
19. "It was a million tiny things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it." ~ Tom Hanks
20. "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." ~ Tom Hanks
21. "As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up." ~ Tom Hanks
22. "If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great." ~ Tom Hanks
23. "Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are." ~ Tom Hanks
24. "May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live." ~ Tom Hanks
25. "But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44." ~ Tom Hanks
26. "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." ~ Tom Hanks
27. "From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go." ~ Tom Hanks
28. "The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began." ~ Tom Hanks

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I was shy," said six-foot-one of bashful male. He grunted as a sharp, feminine elbow thudded inconspicuously into his side."
Author: Anne Gracie

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