Jason Statham Quotes
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
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I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.
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With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so engrossed in it.
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Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.
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I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.
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I'm very fussy. I'm very hard to please.
