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Donnie Yen

"There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs."

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"There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs."

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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."

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"America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man."

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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."

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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."

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"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."

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"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."

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"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America."

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