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.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Global

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • Deserve
  • Citizens

• Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Church
  • Gay
  • Cruel

• I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Day

• Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Wealth
  • Oil
  • Ancient

• 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.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Names
  • Early

• 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.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Long
  • Society
  • Serious

• I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Believe
  • Place
  • I Believe

• All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Poverty

• When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Money
  • Football
  • Fame

• 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.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Body
  • Fire
  • Blood

• I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Like

• Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Pretty
  • Air
  • Place

• The Mexicans are not going to build the wall... they're not going to do it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Wall
  • Going
  • Build

• Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Never Forget

• You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Lose

• '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.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Good
  • Night
  • Space

• You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

  

  LeBron James
  • Men
  • Family
  • Why

• Winning in my business is everything.

  

  Al Unser
  • Business
  • Winning

• If you say I just yell on records, that means you ain't a real fan of me, and I would never even give your comment the time of day.

  

  Meek Mill
  • Time
  • Real

• Without remorse she gave good-bye to her fantasies. They'd served their purpose, they'd awoken her heart to its potential. But as far as using them as a template for her life ...

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Heart
  • Purpose
  • Potential

• If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Character
  • Connection
  • Fake