Jet Li Quotes
Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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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.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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Je ne dois qu'à moi seul toute ma renommée.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.
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Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
