China Quotes - Page 34

• Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Islamic, Russia, Use

  Interview With Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February, 2003.

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• I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

  Steven Spielberg

  One Day, Want, Empires

  "Spielberg Has Desire to Work With Zhang Yimou". Interview with Liu Wei, usa.chinadaily.com.cn. August 15, 2013.

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• I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.

  Maurice Strong

  Numbers, Roles, Retired

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

  David Suzuki

  Government, Giving, Desire

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• Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  New York, Order, Fragility

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• My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Focus, United States

  "ABC Grills Trump With Tough Questions, Provided Softballs for Dem Candidates in 2007". Interview with George Stephanopoulos, www.newsbusters.org. April 19, 2011.

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• China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.

  Donald Trump

  Oil, Trying, Doe

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, blogs.abcnews.com. April 19, 2011.

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• So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Mean

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• But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, People, Arms

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• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Writing, Thinking

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• Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Views

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• Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Country, Technology, Wind

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

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• I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

  Vera Wang

  Style, Culture, Architecture

  Interview with Evan Lysacek, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2010.

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• Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.

  Meg Whitman

  Education, Country, Fall

  Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.

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• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dubai, Oil, India

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• I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Honesty, Kids, Thinking

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughing, Maine, Way

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.227, Random House

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• In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, August, Video

  Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China, August 31, 1995.

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• Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Happiness, Anniversary

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

  Diablo Cody

  Baby, Gun, Ipods

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• In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?

  Miranda July

  Couple, Men, Feet

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• Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!" No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down." Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.

  Neal Shusterman

  Hair, Chinese, Looks

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• Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Writing, Obviousness, Done

  "The Red-Headed League" (1891)

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• Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned.

  Neal Stephenson

  Drug, Motorcycle, Riding

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.158, Spectra

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• The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Wall, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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