Jackie Chan Quotes
When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.
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Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us.
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I have a photographic memory.
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You really can eat well in England - if you have the money.
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No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
