China Quotes - Page 30

• Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia, but we haven't really had, after the 1960s, a major oppositional culture in Western Europe and America. The Occupy movement was so startling and welcome partly because it was the first such eruption of mass protests in decades.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, America, Egypt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• China is stealing all of our secrets out of our computers, using the psychic children, and we're trying to say that it's people here in the United States, but that's not the case. And Russia for sure is able to go into any computer in the world and take all the information out of it.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Children, Psychics, Russia

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.

  Marine Le Pen

  Russia, Qatar, Arabia

  "I Don't Want this European Soviet Union". Interview With Mathieu von Rohr, www.spiegel.de. June 3, 2014.

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• I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Nba, People

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• For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

  Diane Ackerman

  Zoos, Animal, Sea

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• No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

  Madeleine Albright

  Wish, Might, Matter

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• Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

  Madeleine Albright

  Differences, Issues, Rights

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• In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.

  Giorgio Armani

  Practice, Space, Shops

  "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, edition.cnn.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I mean, there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, Freedom Of Speech, World

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

  Joe Baca

  Jobs, Nails, Coffins

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• What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

  Michele Bachmann

  Loss, People, United States

  "Bachmann: The American People Are Concerned About 'The Rise Of The Soviet Union'" by Kyle Mantyla, www.rightwingwatch.org. August 18, 2011.

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• I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.

  Antonio Banderas

  Morning, White, Tea

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• China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Animal, People, Feelings

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• I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Country, Switzerland, Norway

  "José Manuel Barroso: 'How is Britain so open to the world, but so closed to Europe?'". Interview with David Miliband, www.newstatesman.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

  Robert Benchley

  Track, Trying, Skins

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• I always love China, especially the old China.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Interview with Anna Coren, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

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• China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Europe, Cost, Investing

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• You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Bridges, Looks, Gone

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Adventure, Way, Hong Kong

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• I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

  Smedley Butler

  Brother, Light, Oil

  Smedley D. Butler (2003). “War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, Feral House

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• One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Goal, Would Be

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• More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

  Jackie Chan

  People, Tourists, Ambassadors

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• Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Thinking, Russia

  "Interview with Secretary Hillary Clinton". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 20, 2012.

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• China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Russia, Television

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• Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

  Jim DeMint

  Country, Children, Government

  "Interview: Sen. Jim DeMint on Tea Party, U.S. Debt, and God's Calling". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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