Hamish Linklater Quotes
I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.
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We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
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The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.
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I think if you want to do something, then you should go all out completely and be fearless.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
