Jackie Chan Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.
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Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.
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By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
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When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.
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What I found in Silicon Valley is an industry that's sort of been kept a very far remove from Washington and had an attitude of 'Just let us do our thing and make the miracles that people love around the world and leave us alone.'
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
