Hong Kong Quotes - Page 3

• The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

  Robert Trout

  India, Use, Ugly

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• No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law.

  Wu Bangguo

  Law, Contradiction, Judicial

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• We enjoy a considerable net inflow of capital and I am sure that a condition of its coming, and staying, is that it is free to flow out again. It is also important for Hong Kong's status as a financial centre that there should be a maximum freedom of capital movement both in and out.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Important, Movement, Flow

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 134), March 29, 1963.

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• What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Attitude, Children, Years

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.

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• I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.

  Ming-Na Wen

  Chinese, Hollywood, Asian

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• The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world. You can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live.

  Donald Tsang

  People, Friendly, World

  "CE speaks at Business for Clean Air' Joint Conference". www.info.gov.hk. November 27, 2006.

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• Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Jobs, Wall

  Charles Bukowski, “Pull A String, A Puppet Moves”

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• People are very surprised when they come to Hong Kong after seeing my films, because my version of it is quite different than Hong Kong in reality.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Reality, People, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.

  Andrew Lau

  Men, Ideas, Directors

  "Dialogue: Director Andrew Lau". The Hollywood Reporter interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 2, 2007.

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• My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

  Edward Snowden

  Fate, People, Intention

  "EXCLUSIVE: Whistle-blower Edward Snowden talks to South China Morning Post". China Morning Post Interveiw, www.scmp.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.

  Michael Strong

  New York, Powerful, Years

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• The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Flu, Dinner, Today

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• Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.

  Trevor Manuel

  Effort, Deals, Acceptable

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• I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

  Edward Snowden

  Fighting, Opportunity, Government

  "Whistle-blower Edward Snowden tells SCMP: 'Let Hong Kong people decide my fate'". China Morning Post Interveiw, www.scmp.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such a tangible way. The generosity of earlier generations of donors made it possible for me to attend Princeton as a young student from Hong Kong, and I have always wanted to do all I could to assure that students in the future.. from the United States and around the world.. will have the same kinds of opportunities I had to learn from faculty members who are leaders in their fields at a university that remains second to none in its commitment to teaching.

  Gordon Wu

  Gratitude, Teaching, Commitment

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• Anybody who doesn't think that Hong Kong has to depend on the PRC (China) must be the biggest idiot on earth because you are talking about getting access to a 1.3 billion people market.

  Gordon Wu

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.

  Edward Snowden

  Next Week, Long, Government Spying

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.

  Robert Mark Kamen

  Years, Action, Wanted

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• Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will be serious risks and increasing pressures for coastal protection in South East Asia (Bangladesh and Vietnam), small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and large coastal cities, such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta, Karachi, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, New York, Miami and London.

  Nicholas Stern

  New York, Islands, Years

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• What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

  Gordon Brown

  Agreement, Debt, Relief

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• The reality is that until we can agree on a formula that reduces tariffs globally we cannot meet this Doha promise for development. In order to keep momentum post-Hong Kong, the European Union must be willing to move.

  Rob Portman

  Moving, Reality, Order

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• I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of what was then Penny's Bay, envisioning what could be, what would be, what will be. Six years later, through our dream partnership with Hong Kong government, the creative dream is now a reality. Hong Kong Disneyland stands before us as a living symbol of the creativity and imagination that are the heart and soul of Disney.

  Michael Eisner

  Dream, Heart, Creativity

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• It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Long, Pages, Rockets

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• In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.

  Paul Romer

  World, Lasts, Poverty

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• I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

  Helen Clark

  Japan, Korea, People

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