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I love Russia. Some people love Africa, some people love Mexico, some people love purple, the color purple. I love Russia, and I'm not scared to say it.

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Love, Some, Africa, Mexico

Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.

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Love, Films, Accessible, Action Film

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

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My Life, Think, I Think, Risking

Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.

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Development, Very, Same Time, Harmonious

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.

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Own, Hollywood, Rather, Dominated

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

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Thoughts, Emotions, Trauma, Unhealthy

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

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Work, Bad, Uncle, Stakes

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

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Love, Seed, Give, Bestow

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

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Myself, Person, Very, Nonviolent

In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.

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Law, Police Officers, Always, Case

I love getting out on the streets and helping people.

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Love, Getting, I Love, Helping People

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

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Warrior, Artist, Also, Scholar

I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.

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Think, I Think, Given, Chooses

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

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American, Never, Any, Godfather

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

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Everybody, Very, Certainly, Common Sense

I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action.

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Show, About, Had, Reality Show

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

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Through, Became, Works, Agents

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

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Black, Born, I Was Born, Neighborhood

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

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Adversity, Calm, Face, Martial Arts

For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.

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Individual, May, Dilemmas, Buddhism

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

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Some, Rather, Symbol, Great Writer

Everybody struggles to come up with stuff that no one has ever seen before. It's a fine line between trying to get creative and doing something that's new, fresh and different - yet, for me, something that's based in reality that would actually work in these situations. These are the keys to great fight scenes and action sequences.

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Doing, Everybody, Before, Fresh

I want to make a movie that can grab people by the heartstrings.

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Want, Movie, Make, Grab

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.

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Love, Father, Had, Hardened

I'm a hip-hop fan.

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Fan, Hip-Hop

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

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Consciousness, Studied, Paths

I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.

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Kid, I Was Raised, Very, Episcopalian

Believe it or not, there are some things that I have written that would be kind of a dream to make. Hopefully, I will get to finance them... There is something that I wrote called 'Demon's Flare' which would kind of be a dream come true.

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Believe, Some, Flare, Hopefully

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

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Love, Reasons, Particularly, Action Movies

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

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Love, Been, I Love, First Love

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