Jackie Chan Quotes
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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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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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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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.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I get it.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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I want to show audiences I can act.
