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Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two y... 
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and som... 
Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li do... 
And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always... 
Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li do... 
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. 
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not goin... 
People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, wit... 
I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be... 
Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do. 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. 
Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget. 
I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yo... 
If you get to the point in your career where you're running with a gun - I've yet to run wit... 
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom tim... 
Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or... 
Actually, for me, I really love to do action movie. You know, most people, they know, they thought t... 
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, y... 
One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone. 
We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or ge... 
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... 
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Martial arts is something you can learn or pick up and think you could do really well. 
There are a few chances in life where you get to take a different road. I think it's important t... 
Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly i... 
Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're ... 
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and som... 
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to surv... 
When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you... 
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a gr... 
Most people do not have a clear picture of things that are important in their lives and as a result,... 
You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever... 
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the author... 
I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the... 
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creativ... 
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha... 
Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend ... 
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain... 
I am about as detailed as a shadow. 
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. 
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. 
Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hi... 
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. 
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. 
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off. 
The whole system of society tells you what to do.