Chinese Quotes - Page 2

• We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

  David Cameron

  Needs, World, Bigs

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• I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.

  Tia Carrere

  Hawaii, Descent, Filipino

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

  Jet Li

  Art, Thinking, People

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• But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.

  Fred Thompson

  Taiwan, Aids, Ifs

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• Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

  Gene Tierney

  Girl, Careers, Aristocracy

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

  Confucius

  Successful, Intelligent, Mind

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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• I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.

  Colleen McCullough

  Writing, Want, Raised

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• But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

  Ezra Stiles

  Government, Two, People

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• I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

  Martin Yan

  Community, Culture, Helping

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• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  Zhang Yimou

  Sticks, Language, Film

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• If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Oil, Ducks

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• In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof; the wall does not act as a support. Instead, it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Wall, East, Use

  "The House: Its Origins and Evolution".

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• Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Vietnam, Genocide, Terrible

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• It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

  John Breaux

  United States, Relation, Appropriate

  "Bush responds to letter from Chinese pilot's wife". www.cnn.com. April 8, 2001.

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• I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

  Mira Sorvino

  Home, Eight, Intellectual

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• What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

  Jung Chang

  War, Upheaval, Levels

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• There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

  Denis Kearney

  Borders, Mexico, Columbia

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

  Confucius

  Yoga, Positivity, Taoism

  Confucius (2014). “The Analects”, Penguin

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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Mistake

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• Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

  Confucius

  Wise, Philosophical, Practice

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Life, Memories, Ink

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• Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

  Confucius

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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