Toms Quotes - Page 20

• John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president.

  David Letterman

  President, Busy, Odd

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• Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey.

  Janet Lembke

  Daughter, Sweet, Character

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• Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

  John Michael Hayes

  Race, People, House

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• People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Believe, People, Waiting

  Interview with Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. February 7, 2012.

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• The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.

  Rihanna

  Thinking, Important, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Uncles, Writing, Achievement

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)

  George Clooney

  Gossip, Busy, Cruise

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• Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo - those were the three guys who said they do not believe in evolution. The irony will be on them when their campaigns die off in favor of stronger, fitter campaigns.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Guy, Stronger

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• At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Queens, Father, Book

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• All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it's like you're dating again. It's fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work.

  Tom Hanks

  Kids, Dating, Gone

  "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Cloud Atlas". The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

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• There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise. Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy's going to hang out on the top of the Burj, he's not going to let anybody do his singing for him.

  Adam Shankman

  Believe, Voice, Guy

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really, every time it pops up, it's very strange.

  Emily Barton

  Husband, Historical, Strange

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had heard that Tom [Cruise] was the same way, that he is incredibly dedicated. I was very excited to meet him and I was, honest to God, weirdly surprised that the guy makes me look lazy. I think he does think I'm a hard worker, but he makes me look like I'm doing nothing. The guy is at the gym before anybody in the morning.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Morning, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• [ Tom Cruise] that kind of employee that's first to arrive, last to leave.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Lasts, Firsts, Kind

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The guy [Tom Cruise] is a machine.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Guy, Machines, Cruise

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• Public service announcement: In case of a terrorist attack, bottled water and duct tape are not going to do a damn thing. So do what Homeland Security Dir. Tom Ridge does: Get really drunk, and pick up a hooker.

  David Letterman

  Water, Drunk, Doe

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• Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system. ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means we're being attacked by Martha Stewart.

  Conan O'Brien

  Mean, Color, Green

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• Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Children, Years, Tennessee

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• Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Prayer, Truth, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.514, Delphi Classics

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• So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in the clutch, Tom Matchick's home run to beat Baltimore in the ninth inning, then Daryl Patterson striking out the side to beat them in the ninth. Excitement every day in the ballpark.

  Ernie Harwell

  Running, Home, Victory

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• Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

  Jay Leno

  Stars, Majority Leader, Years

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• Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

  Ken Bruen

  Waiting, Black, Fiction

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• There are a lot of writers from the South who would probably have once figured they needed to go to New York to make it who have stayed closer to home - people like David Joy, Tom Franklin, Sheldon Lee Compton, Wiley Cash, Mark Powell, and Alex Taylor.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  New York, Home, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write a piece for me for an orchestra. And I thought, I don't want someone else to write that. You know I finally had made an overhead chart of my drums and what pitches the cymbals and toms were tuned to, and what have you. And I started to compose just with what I had for my solo drumming.

  Terry Bozzio

  Writing, People, Pieces

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.

  Barack Obama

  Abortion, Friendly, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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