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.
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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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'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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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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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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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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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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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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Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.
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It's intense having twins. There's no way to prepare for it, but it's been... the greatest thing to ever happen to me.
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There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
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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.
