Jet Li Quotes

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

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• I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Earth

• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Better
  • Peaceful

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Place
  • Information
  • Possible

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Control
  • Mistake

• One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • School
  • Home
  • America

• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Important
  • Job
  • Hair

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Stronger
  • Redhead

• It's a sin to be tired.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Tired
  • Sin

• If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Creative

• In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Food
  • Winter

• Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and, frankly, better understand the innate cruelty of abortion and its horrific legacy - victims - while making us more determined than ever to protect the weakest and the most vulnerable.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Time
  • Violence
  • Legacy

• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Children
  • Justice

• Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

  

  J. G. Holland
  • People
  • Why
  • Wind

• If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Champion
  • Wait

• If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Culture
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

  

  Jet Li
  • Culture