Chinese Quotes - Page 31

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  Gary Becker

  Stronger, Assets, Accumulation

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• I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

  Lorraine Bracco

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• I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.

  Eliza Coupe

  America, Female, Littles

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

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• When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

  Iris Chang

  San Francisco, Special, Firsts

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• Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

  Ricky Jay

  Sunday, Shrimp, World

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• The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?

  Alice Eve

  Moving, Home, Squares

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• The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

  Robert Fortune

  Dwarves, Tree, Next

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.143

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• Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  Mother, Father, Book

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• The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

  Chen Guangcheng

  Home, Leaving, Ministry

  "Chen Guangcheng says he fears reprisals against his family" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.

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• If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.

  Bart Gordon

  Moon, Goal, Wake Up

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• The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

  Ben Gibbard

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Democracy

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• We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

  Steve Hackett

  Song: Little America

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• The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. [...] Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. [...] The banking system in China is extremely fragile.

  James Chanos

  Thinking, People, Banking

  "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.

  James Chanos

  Numbers, Growth, Casinos

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• The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.

  Hu Jintao

  Culture, World, Whole

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• All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises.

  Hu Jintao

  Innovation, Treatment, China

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

  Hu Jintao

  Strong, Culture, West

  "China's President Lashes Out at Western Culture" by Edward Wong, www.nytimes.com. January 3, 2012.

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• You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

  Helmut Jahn

  People, Farce, Littles

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• I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

  Ma Jian

  People, Crushed, Wanted

  "Home truths from the exile". Interview With Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2004.

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• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  Ma Jian

  Apology, Media, People

  "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

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• I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

  Karlie Kloss

  Thinking, Wish, Impossible

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• The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

  John Keegan

  Clever, Fighting, Men

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• I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Zombie, Good Man, Directors

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.

  Stana Katic

  Thinking, House, Parent

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• If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

  Li Na

  People, Wimbledon, Forget

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