Jiang Wen Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
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I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer.
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Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
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I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
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I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.
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I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.
