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Jackie Chan

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It’s our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.
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Friendship Global Live Myself Peace Place Togetherness World
Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.
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Hospital Injury Myself Pain
My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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Body Dreams Film Movie Myself Stop
I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.
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Art Children Country Learning Myself Respect World Young
I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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Artist Fight Myself Time Violence
Coffee is a language in itself.
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Coffee Language One Liner
I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.
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Crazy Myself Stupidity
I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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Hate Kind Myself Struggle Violence
Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.
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Act Care Change Compassionate Kindness Life Oneself Person
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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Dedication Determination Hard Work Inspirational Myself Sleep Training
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‘Jackie Who?’.
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English Feeling Hollywood Humiliate Myself Past
When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.
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Deal Eyes Mindset Myself Pressure Training Young
Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.
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Force Government Official Reality Stop Suffering
I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn’t know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.
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Bully Mental Myself Scare Stand
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
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Art Help Learning People Weakness Yourself
If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
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Attachment Desire Heart Broken Live People True
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.
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Action Career Myself Short Star
Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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Love Myself Peace Sports Unity
I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
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Eat Myself Run Training
Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.
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Education Live People Treat
Family is not who’s blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.
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Blood Family Love Yourself
I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.
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Beginning Control Freedom Feeling Myself Need
I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, ‘Ah yes, they good.’ Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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People Remember
Martial arts is not for hurting people, it’s for protecting people.
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Art Hurt People Protection
Martial arts is for defense. It’s not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.
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Art Attack Defense People
When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: “You’re useless” But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That’s how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.
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Art Best Build Director Man Myself Young
I want to show audiences I can act.
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Act Audience Myself

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