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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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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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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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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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 always thought to myself, 'I don't want to be doing stand-up when I'm 40 years old.'
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As a director you already have a script, you have actors... you have collaborators when you're a director. When you're writing there's no one to collaborate with, there's no material to look at. I haven't adapted something yet, so, I'm sure that would be helpful. When you're writing an original piece you have nothing.
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My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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Accountability is a two way street. We can't just make it easier for us to fire people; we must make it easier for us to hire people. It takes VA an average of 240 days to complete the hiring process for executives joining VA from outside government. We are losing talented people because it simply takes too long.
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I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.
