Jackie Chan Quotes
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.
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I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
