Dan Inosanto Quotes
Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.
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Sometimes I think I don't want to grow old as an actress and deal with the fact that I'm getting less jobs 'cause my face is changing, and then the men... But at the same time, I'm pretty competitive. I don't know if I'd bow out. I might still be acting when I'm in a wheelchair.
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Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
