Ziyi Zhang Quotes

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

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• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
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• I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • People
  • World
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• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
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• I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

  

  Rachel Perry
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  • Nice
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• I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Always
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• Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

  

  J Allard
  • People
  • Music
  • Video Games

• One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Up
  • Moments
  • Looks

• I wanted to go to college and play football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • College
  • Play
  • Football

• A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Fear

• In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • American
  • America
  • Soul

• I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Work
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  • Fashion

• The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Looks
  • Look
  • Distance

• Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Loyalty

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
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• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Mind
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• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
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• I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Work
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• Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.

  

  E. L. James
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  • Yourself
  • Everyday

• Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Space
  • Religious

• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
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• Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be a move for canonization?

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Pope

• Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Done
  • High
  • Sun

• It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
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  • Dance
  • Chinese