Jackie Chan Quotes
After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
Quotes to Explore
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
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It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there, in Afghanistan and Iraq as advisors and facilitators.
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The work of the artist is to heal the soul.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
