Jackie Chan Quotes
I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
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I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.
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I play solitaire and wait for something to happen.
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White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.
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Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
