Jackie Chan Quotes
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
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In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
