Jackie Chan Quotes
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
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On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
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What is important is how much service you can give to the world and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.
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I really like children to watch my movies.
