Jackie Chan Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I think all politicians lie.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I like being unconventional.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.
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Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'
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Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
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The world is too violent right now.
