Beijing Quotes - Page 4

• To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

  Bradley Wiggins

  Winning, Cycling, Years

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• The heaviest snowfall in over 60 years is being reported in Beijing, China. To give you an idea of how bad it is, the army is now using snowplows to run over dissidents.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Army, Ideas

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• Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.

  Jean Chretien

  Home, Class, Paris

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.408, Vintage Canada

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• In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

  Laure Manaudou

  Swimming, Race, Expectations

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• I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

  Vijender Singh

  Boxing, London, Moments

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• We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that it completes a cycle of certain types of shows... I don't think any nation could do anything on that scale. We haven't got that money, and I don't think anybody would have the appetite for that kind of expenditure and that kind of control, so we're going to try and do something a bit more intimate and try and start again... start a new cycle for these kind of ceremonies.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, Trying, Majesty

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing.

  David Burge

  Real, Debt, Ceilings

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• I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.

  Boris Johnson

  Sports, Attitude, Thinking

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• I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

  Kohei Uchimura

  Memories, Japan, Gold

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• People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege of being locked up in a freezing, filthy, stinking container ship and hauled like cargo for weeks until they finally arrive in Moscow or Beijing or Baghdad or Kabul. People risk their lives to come here---to New York. The greatest city in the world, where dreams become reality.

  Sean Hannity

  Dream, Country, New York

  Sean Hannity (2002). “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism”, p.8, Dubois Publishing

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• Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction

  Tash Aw

  Country, Years, Way

  "Growing up in the world". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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