Chinese Quotes - Page 23

• The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

  Cam'ron

  Fighting, Battle, Difficult

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• A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.

  Bill Walton

  Population, Houston, Huge

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• American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Daughter, Order, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon, Susan Brownell Anthony (2000). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873”, p.237, Rutgers University Press

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• Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."

  David Sedaris

  Asking Questions, Waiting Rooms, People

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• It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We'd be rich and they'd be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They're all full of it. Nothing balances out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Boys, Cities, Soldier

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• A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality the great Chinese poets accept the world exactly as they find it in all its terms and with profound simplicity they seldom talk about one thing in terms of another; but are able enough and sure enough as artists to make the ultimately exact terms become the beautiful terms.’

  Stephen Shore

  Beautiful, Attitude, Artist

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• My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is the sort of lyrics you could never think of, loser. Here's a razorblade go cut yourself

  Thom Yorke

  Heart, Cutting, Thinking

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• I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thailand|Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  People, Support, Thailand

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• Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!

  Elena Kagan

  Restaurants, Jew, Chinese Food

  "Networks Paint 'Trailblazer' Kagan as Hilarious Wit Who 'Can Take a Punch'". www.newsbusters.org. June 30, 2010.

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• Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

  Bob Filner

  Government, Years, Taiwan

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• Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.

  Ang Lee

  Growing Up, Sadness, Thinking

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• If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Reality, Thinking, America

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• Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.

  Ian Fleming

  Long, Nests, Odd

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• Being Chinese immigrants in the United States, it was important for my parents to maintain ties that went back a long time. They led by example. My dad didn't bring his work pressures home. We were always aware of them and would go as kids to his office and run around. But when he came home, he was able to leave things behind, at least from our perspective, and focus on us.

  Chien Chung Pei

  Fathers Day, Running, Dad

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• The Chinese side stands ready to work with Morocco to consolidate and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and continuously push forward the development of Sino-Moroccan ties in the spirit of boosting understanding, broadening cooperation for common development.

  Wu Bangguo

  Ties, Understanding, Morocco

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• I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.

  Lee Min-ho

  Country, Fun, Drama

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• People always think of Chinese food as the go-to ethnic food when everything else is closed during the holidays, but Indian is a nice alternative. Plus - Indians? Thanksgiving? Kinda makes sense.

  Erin Gibson

  Nice, Holiday, Funny Thanksgiving

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• Soup's on and I got a coupon.
  Chinese restaurant asking for the Grey Poupon.
  He said "No, duck sauce, soy sauce...
  And this ain't no Burger King, so you no get no toy, boss."

  Daniel Dumile

  Kings, Rap, Ducks

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• Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Fall, Eight

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• What we're trying to look for is a process that is not responding to political pressures, but one that is responding to economic reality, because I do believe ... that it's in the best interest of the Chinese people to allow a market-based currency.

  Lindsey Graham

  Believe, Reality, People

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• We're told we need this trade deal to open up vast markets to American goods, ... But the reality is that most Chinese workers cannot afford to buy the goods that even they make.

  David E. Bonior

  Reality, Needs, Trade

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• Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of soldiers to overwhelm their adversaries, the GOP uses huge campaign budgets as a substitute for strategy, thought or issues.

  Dick Morris

  Military, Issues, Political

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• Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I wish to express, on behalf of the Chinese Government and people, our deepest sympathy and solicitude to you and, through you, to the Government and people of the United States. I wish also to extend our condolences to the families of the victims. The Chinese Government has consistently condemned and rejected all forms of terrorist violence.

  Jiang Zemin

  New York, Condolences, Cities

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• I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

  Slavoj Žižek

  Focus, Hatred, Annoyed

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• I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

  Chuck Yeager

  Differences, Flying, Dimes

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