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"I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely."
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"I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing."
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"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever."
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"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."
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"Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms."
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"When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me."
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"It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band."
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"You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name."
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"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
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"I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life."
Life
"I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?."
Hate
"For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies."
Money
"American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt."
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"Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead."
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"I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer."
Life
"I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan."
First
"Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances."
Change
"I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years."
Movies
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