Jackie Chan Quotes
The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
Quotes to Explore
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I never thought that being a puppeteer was something someone could do as a job.
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I don't do any amount of stunts.
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I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile for 'The Village Voice'.
Colson Whitehead -
Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.
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The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
