Tom Hanks Quotes
If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
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In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.
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The Mexicans are not going to build the wall... they're not going to do it.
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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
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'Fright Night' I can just about deal with. Because the original is such a 1980s extravaganza. Which is a good thing. Obviously. But something like 'The Others' or anything psychological: I'm no good with that. I don't like it when there's space for me to use my imagination.
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People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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Yesterday, we were a weak and small country trampled upon by big powers. Today, our geopolitical location remains the same, but we are transformed into a proud political and military power and an independent people that no one can dare provoke. The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.
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You can't escape from yourself, can you?
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My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.
