Jackie Chan Quotes
My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'
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Privacy is paradise.
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If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass
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The government invented the Internet.
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The focus around Circle China is really cross-border payments. If I'm a parent in China and my son is studying at London Business School, I might want to send 500 RMB. I should be able to do that and have my child instantly receive it as pounds sterling, in the same way people do that with instant messages today.
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My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
