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I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

Always Become Before Cats
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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Able Draw Experience Future
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Abrupt Divides Each Geography
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
Person King Glass Water
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

Loved Mind Speak
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Story Haunt Writing Themes
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The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Body Covered Meant MeantToBe
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I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.
Every morning Early Sky Red
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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Forever Least Leave People
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I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Ignorant Learning Subject Psychology
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I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.
Different Different Places Everywhere Grew
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Afraid Give Go Good
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We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

Hustler Inspiration Building Bootstraps
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Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Average Average People Consists Good
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Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

About Always Birthday Come
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.

Brad Brad Pitt Challenge Going
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

Artistic Came Did Ever
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

Ask Course Jackie Lot
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A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Career Cold Curl Night
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To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

Foundation Put Seem Whole
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There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

God Lights Made Mistake
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With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

About Day Day-To-Day Else
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I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
About Like Night Often
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I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

American Average AverageAmerican BeHappy
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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

After Brighten Course Depend
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Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Creature Morals Drink Nature
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Attitude Contingent Prospect Sales
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Alone Anyone Awakening Back
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Alchemy Astronomy Ethics Four
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all

Gratitude Electricity Discharged
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I'm glad I haven't got the sort of conscience I've got to nurse like a sick puppy all the time.

Glad Conscience Nurse Sick
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When God blesses your neighbour, don't be upset or jealous. Instead, be expectant

Blesses Neighbour Upset Jealous
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

Angels Appear Directly Dreams
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Antidote Enthusiasm Great Poison
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adventure Approach Certain Certainty
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Defense is superior to opulence.
Defense Opulence Superior
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

African Dreams Genius Snow
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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Life Delight Enjoy Order
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Altogether Ambition Desire Directing
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You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

About Admit Ashamed Gay
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I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

Any Been Growing GrowingUp
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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

Hang Hear Her Maria
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I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

Believer Rap Supporter Tremendous
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

About Am Feel Really
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Activity Bath Communal Group
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

Ask Filming Get Hours
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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Pine Item After World
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
Downs Industry Many Movie
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

Diary Downstairs Exercise Goes
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I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

Avatar Chinese Hire Me
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