Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. – Tom Hanks
But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think Im very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time. – Tom Hanks
Its always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. Its hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. – Tom Hanks
And Im not apolitical – Im very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time its nobodys business unless youre over at my house having dinner. – Tom Hanks
I say lets go back to a truer use of the word freedom. Lets start with President Franklin Roosevelts Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today. – Richard Trumka
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting – I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. – Nigel Kennedy