Donnie Yen Quotes

It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

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• We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • People
  • Work
  • She

• We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Life
  • Team
  • Respect

• I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Think
  • Everyone

• I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Myself

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gold

• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Books
  • Reasons
  • Explain

• I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Hand
  • Try
  • Direct

• I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Red

• When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

  

  Edmund White
  • American
  • English
  • Model

• If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • You
  • Negative
  • Surprise

• I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Go

• Harry Potter is awesome.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Awesome
  • Harry Potter
  • Harry

• I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Find
  • Place
  • Conquer

• Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

  

  Yves Tanguy
  • Work
  • Community
  • Geography

• Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make snap decisions and take bold, decisive action to protect the American people.

  

  Jared Polis
  • People
  • American
  • Action

• I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

  

  Jill Scott
  • Action

• If Saddam Hussein doesn't accept the peaceful path to the disarmament of his weapons of mass destruction set out by the U.N. resolution, then there will have to be military action taken in order to enforce the will of the U.N.,

  

  Jack Straw
  • Action
  • Taken
  • Military

• I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • World
  • Experience

• It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Action