Jackie Chan Quotes
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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I think you have an obligation to be honest.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
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I don't see how you can give someone who lied to the extent that he did a second chance in the same line of work.
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I've got a very interesting background.
