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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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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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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The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.
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True love lasts forever.
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Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.
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You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said, I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one. (p.158)
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We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
