Chinese Quotes - Page 6

• I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Science, Civilization, Heritage

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.

  James M. Cain

  Home, Mean, Museums

  James M. Cain (2010). “Mildred Pierce”, p.263, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

  Ben Bernanke

  Country, Thinking, Risk

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• What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  War, Faces, Facts

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• Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.

  Charles Bass

  Design, Spy, Important

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• Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Reading, Character, Algebra

  Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them

  Fred Thompson

  Relationship, Want, Knows

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• By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Men, People, Sides

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

  Jack Valenti

  Cinema, Demand, Helping

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• Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?

  Damian Thompson

  Land, Style, President

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• China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

  S. R. Nathan

  Moving, World, Commodity

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• I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

  Alicia Sacramone

  Dresses, Pieces, Paper

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• In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Men, Names, California

  Interview with Colleen Long, onlineathens.com. October 31, 2003.

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• I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Contact, Journalist

  "Edward Snowden flatly denies Chinese spy claims" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

  Kim Young-sam

  Sorry, Two, Police

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• If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don't think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership.

  Bryan Fischer

  Thinking, Korea, America

  "Radio's Bryan Fischer Tries Pushing Romney Right". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 14, 2012.

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• The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.

  Manmohan Singh

  Running, Party, Believe

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• I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

  Matt Stone

  Russia, China, Relation

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

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• Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

  David Tang

  Believe, Character, Writing

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• Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

  Robert Trout

  Enemy, Poison, Saws

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• China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Europe, America, Should

  Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger and Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 06, 2007.

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• I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.

  Paz Vega

  Problem, Film, Streets

  "Paz Vega Makes Peace With Shanghai" by Jonathan Landreth, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 14, 2011.

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• Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

  Daniel Yergin

  Thinking, World, Want

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• I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.

  Ma Ying-jeou

  Wells

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• My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

  Mo Yan

  Country, Unique, People

  "Nobel winner Mo Yan speaks up for jailed 'subversive' Liu Xiaobo" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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