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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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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Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.
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I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
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I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.
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I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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Trauma interferes with the proper functioning of brain areas that manage and interpret experience.
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Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
