Jackie Chan Quotes
I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
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When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
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If I meet my ideal woman, I want to get married straight away. And start making a world of just the two of us.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.
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The most important investment of our time is in our people and in our youth.
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We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
