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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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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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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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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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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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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A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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I think, that if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.
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If people see me giving back to the military, they'll hopefully follow suit and be good to these guys who have done so much. I'm not Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods - I'm just an old, gray-beard mountain climber, but I'm hoping to inspire people to follow my way.
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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.
