Joan Chen Quotes

I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Dress

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• He who gives love, receives love.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Power
  • Feeling

• I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Push
  • Self-confident

• Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friends

• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Way
  • Myself

• My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Help
  • Support

• I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Myself
  • Like

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Need
  • Fact
  • Russia

• You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Work
  • Done
  • Together

• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Sin
  • Lie
  • Tools

• Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Wall

• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Theatre
  • Very
  • Formal

• There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Band
  • Rock
  • First

• People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that would merit you paying, you know, $7, $8, $10 when CDs in the '90s were $18, $19 and people bought millions and millions and millions of them.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

  

  John Reid KC and the Sunshine Band
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• If you believe in what you do, you are immortal. The day that you don't believe it, the day you're taking other people's opinion, you better go to Tijuana.

  

  María del Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza
  • People
  • Believe
  • Opinion

• I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

  

  Austin Robert Carlile Attack Attack!
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hate

• There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Character

• I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.

  

  Joan Chen
  • People