Donnie Yen Quotes

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

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• In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.

  

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• Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

  

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• The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.

  

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• You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

  

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• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

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• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  

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• I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

  

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• With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

  

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• We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

  

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• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

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• I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.

  

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• Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

  

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• It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

  

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• You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

  

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• One of the issues the Democrats have to be clear on is the given population distribution across the country. We have to compete everywhere. We have to show up everywhere. We have to work at a grassroots level, something that's been a running thread in my career.

  

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• There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Up
  • School
  • America