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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The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.
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My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge.
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A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.
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If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.
