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I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#disagree #getting #i #learn #more

I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#been #close #could #i #if i could

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#always #art #artist #books #choose

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#committed #crimes #his #humanity #many

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#film #i #learn #making #personally

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures. ↗

— George Crumb

#countries #cultures #ever #i #increasing

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that! ↗

— Robert Crumb

#away #backed #bastards #became #bizarre

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. ↗

— George Crumb

#composers #creatures #crisis #earthly #face

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. ↗

— George Crumb

#contemporary world #culture #due #earlier #extensions

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#boyfriend #dollars #gritty #half #i