China Quotes - Page 33

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.

Clive Owen

War, People, Stuff

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China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.

Leon Panetta

Thinking, Korea, Issues

"Panetta: 'Human Side' Makes Pentagon Cuts Tough". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 8, 2012.

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China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

Henry Paulson

Two, Oil, Carbon

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China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals.

Henry Paulson

Needs, Fundamentals, Economic

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China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little.

Henry Paulson

Littles, Too Much, Produce

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Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

Henry Paulson

Working Together, Environmental, Economic

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In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

Henry Paulson

Competition, Favors, Limits

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U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.

Henry Paulson

America, Growing, Facts

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One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

Shimon Peres

Iran, Russia, Want

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The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

Rick Perry

Country, Ties, People

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There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

Michael Phelps

Girl, Sports, Morning

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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

Karl Pilkington

Wall, Honest, Being Honest

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

Philip Pullman

Love, Travel, Knowing

"Northern Lights". Book by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. 1995.

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This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

Harry Reid

Country, Jobs, Skills

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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

Salman Rushdie

Two, Chinese, Literature

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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

Salman Rushdie

Iran, Islam, Trying

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China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.

Howard Schultz

Country, Drinking, Coffee

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Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.

Howard Schultz

United States, Way, Entitlement

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We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

Howard Schultz

Opportunity, Thinking, Numbers

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India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Hu Shih

Soldier, Independence, India

"Consolation of Mind". Book by H. K. Suhas, p. 111, 2004.

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Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

Hu Shih

Atheist, Leader, Atheism

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For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

Hu Shih

People, Chinese, Tools

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I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

Michael K. Simpson

Country, Political, Desire

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Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

Michael K. Simpson

Taiwan, Use, May

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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

Patti Smith

Beautiful, Mother, Father

"The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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