Jiang Wen Quotes
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
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I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.
