Jackie Chan Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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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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During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.
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I hate being interviewed. I'm like, 'Aaaarrgghh!' I don't like talking about myself.
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Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.
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Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
