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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I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.
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I think all teenagers feel a lot of things at once; everything's going crazy in our brain.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.
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I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.'
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
