Chinese Quotes - Page 30

• The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

  James Fallows

  Air, Cities, People

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• One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space in the same painting. You have a kind of deep space, and then you have something like right up on the surface.

  Mary Heilmann

  Numbers, Space, Different

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• Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

  Martin Yan

  Asian, Culture, World

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• As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.

  Martin Yan

  Thinking, Long, Matter

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• I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

  Leroy Chiao

  Russia, Interesting, United States

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• I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Morning, Simple, Night

  "What's in your basket?". Interview with John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2008.

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• One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

  Frederic Raphael

  Watches, Television, Tvs

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• Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

  John Lukacs

  Billions, Super Power, Superpower

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• Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Marriage, Daughter, Husband

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.12, Vintage

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• I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

  Lou Gerstner

  Cambridge University, Goes On, Want

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• The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Order, Feet

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• She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

  Emilio G. Segre

  Mother, Science, Literature

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• Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through she is in competition with another Chinese-American woman writer of the same generation. A writer friend of mine calls it the "There Can Only Be One ..." syndrome. This isn't "Survivor." The more good writers, of all walks of life and all ethnicities and persuasions, the better.

  ZZ Packer

  Writing, Ethnicity, Feelings

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• But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

  Hu Shih

  Religious, Wish

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• Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

  Hu Shih

  People, Confucianism, Chiefs

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• The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

  Hu Shih

  Religious, People, Development

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• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  Hu Shih

  Light, Vegetables, Oil

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• You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

  Paul Keating

  Military, Friendly, Wikileaks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

  Jet Li

  Hero, People, Film

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• The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

  Liu Xiaobo

  People, Internet

  Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.

  Xi Jinping

  Years, Advancement, Development

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• The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

  Irving Azoff

  Rocks, Democracy, Rock N Roll

  "Guns N'Roses' 'chinese democracy' makes radio debut" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. October 22, 2008.

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• Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria.

  Joy Behar

  Mama, Restaurants, Teresa

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

  Charles Bass

  Military, Technology, Effort

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• The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

  Charles Bass

  Military, Past, Technology

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