China Quotes - Page 32

• Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

  Nick Lampson

  Ties, Understanding, Taiwan

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• I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

  Philip Larkin

  Mind, If I Could, Seeing

  Philip Larkin (1989). “Philip Larkin: the man and his work”, Univ of Iowa Pr

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• I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

  Ang Lee

  Country, Knowing, Guy

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• I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

  Jet Li

  Art, School, Years

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• My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

  Maya Lin

  Father, Artist, Firsts

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

  Bai Ling

  Thinking, Hollywood, Different

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• Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

  Eric Liu

  America, Worry, Six

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• Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

  Eric Liu

  Zero, Loss, Games

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• Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

  Eric Liu

  Children, Self, Comfort

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• Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

  Eric Liu

  Jobs, Couple, Men

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• China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

  James Lovelock

  America, Revolution, Regimes

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• I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

  Rob Lowe

  Teenager, Tea, Being A Teenager

  "Lowe profile" Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2001.

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• There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

  Andre Malraux

  Islam, Needs, West

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• The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

  Marilyn Manson

  Taken, People, Democracy

  "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

  George R. R. Martin

  Looks, Flags, Ships

  "Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin: Blood of Bayonne". Interview with Joanna Buffum and Dylan Runco, njmonthly.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Moving, Cuba, Making Money

  "Fat Cats and Shady Deals". www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2002.

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• Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

  James A. Michener

  Country, Russia, Expression

  "A Spelunker in the Caves of History". "Modern Maturity" Magazine, August 1985.

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• The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

  Michael Moore

  Ideas, People, Innovation

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• We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

  Michael Moore

  Moving, Games, People

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• If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China, and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dog, Cat, Caring

  "Morrissey reignites racism row by calling Chinese a 'subspecies'" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

  Elon Musk

  Moving, Track, Lessons

  "Elon Musk's mission to Mars". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

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• I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.

  Nas

  Growing Up, Crazy, Russia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Baby, Mean, Oil

  "Bill O'Reilly Is Misinforming Americans About Oil Supplies" by Robert Rapier, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2012.

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• There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

  Ehud Olmert

  Country, Islamic, Russia

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• There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

  Edward James Olmos

  Couple, Real, Iran

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