Chinese Quotes - Page 19

• I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

  Francesca Annis

  Technology, Islands, Zanzibar

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• Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

  John Berger

  Art, Italian, Space

  "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Sex, Naps, Filling Up

  The CBC Interview, www.cbc.ca. September 8, 2010.

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• Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

  Jackie Chan

  People, Needs, Want

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• I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

  Jackie Chan

  Men, Spiders, Want

  "Jackie Chan Talks CHINESE ZODIAC, His Longevity in the Action Genre, Thoughts on Directing and Multicultural Casting, and Performing Stunts at His Age". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 19, 2013.

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• I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Trying, Looks

  "Tiger, Tiger burning bright". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

  Ang Lee

  Art, Strong, Book

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

  Ang Lee

  Order, People, Giving

  Salon, October 17, 1997.

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• These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Mean, Two

  Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.

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• You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Stars, Powerful

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• Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

  Jet Li

  Art, Moving

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• Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

  Jet Li

  Art, Stars, Two

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• I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

  Jet Li

  Strong, Philosophy, Needs

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• My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

  Jet Li

  Children, Believe, Two

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• In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

  Jet Li

  Country, Two, Big Families

  "TalkAsia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2003.

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• Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Different, Speak, Translators

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• I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

  Kylie Minogue

  Legs, Splits, Able

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• I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

  Shemar Moore

  Fall, Machines, Want

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

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• I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

  Robert Morgan

  Mathematics, Interest, Backgrounds

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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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• I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'

  Li Na

  Thinking, Winning, Player

  "French Open: Li Na stays on the level after life-changing Paris victory". Interview with Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2012.

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• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  Rafael Nadal

  Uncles, Language, Speak

  "Ask Rafa: send a question to Rafael Nadal". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. January 31, 2012.

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• It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.

  Leon Panetta

  Country, People, Giving

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• Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.

  Henry Paulson

  Hurt, Practice, Firm

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• Chinese people age overnight.

  Karl Pilkington

  People, Age

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