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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I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.
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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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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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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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Writers are not meant for action.
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First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.
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In the interests of research I have walked on many battlefields that once were liquid with pulped men’s bodies and spangled with exploded shells and splayed bone. All of them have been green again by the time I got there. Each has inspired a few good quotes in its day. Sad marble angels brood like hens over the grassy nests where nothing hatches.
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
