Jet Li Quotes
Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
Quotes to Explore
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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I don't think about records.
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I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am. I'm a full-blooded Brazilian, with an entire extended family of Brazilians, but I was born and raised in the U.S.
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I wanted to tell people you can live a full life, even if you're not feeling well.
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He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.
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I love to dress up. You have to have a sense of fun in life, too. We can all be serious and work and do our bit, but every now and again you have to have a good giggle.
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.
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Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
