Jackie Chan Quotes
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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
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By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Gandhis idea of swadeshithat local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedomis becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.
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It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds.
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I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
