Shanghai Quotes

• I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Reading

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• Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

  Orson Welles

  Girlfriend, Husband, Fool

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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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• New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

  Patricia Marx

  New York, Sleep, Cities

  "Buy Shanghai! A city for sale" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.

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• Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality, Shanghai personality becomes part of yours.

  Amy Tan

  Growing Up, People, Personality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

  Berenice Marlohe

  Night, Light, Fans

  "Berenice Marlohe Talks SKYFALL, Playing a Femme Fatale/Bond Girl, How She Was Cast, and More". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

  Orson Welles

  Human Nature, Ends, Humans

  "Fictional character: Elsa". "The Lady from Shanghai", 1948.

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• The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Fall, Mean, Birth

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• I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.

  Orson Welles

  Broke, Found, Sanitary

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• When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you.

  Eliza Coupe

  Cities, Missing, Littles

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

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• I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

  Steven Spielberg

  One Day, Want, Empires

  "Spielberg Has Desire to Work With Zhang Yimou". Interview with Liu Wei, usa.chinadaily.com.cn. August 15, 2013.

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• Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Thinking, Skylines, Done

  "The Great Wall of Sound" by Paul Oakenfold, Tom Pattinson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2007.

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• I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Interesting, Beijing, China

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• I really, really love China. To be honest, the food is so amazing! When I first went to Beijing and Shanghai, I actually became obsessed with soup dumplings, and would stand in lines and get them on the street. It was something that I became obsessed with and when I came back to the States, I did all this research for the best soup dumplings in the Los Angeles area and in the New York area and it was amazing to find those Asian dishes that were authentic and I can enjoy them at home.

  Tyra Banks

  New York, Home, Research

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• In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Air, Breathing, Cities

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Now I am master of Shanghai.

  Iwane Matsui

  Masters

  "America Views China: American Images of China Then and Now". Book by Jonathan Goldstein, p. 19, 1991.

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• What's interesting is whilst Shanghai has gone stellar - literally, in these massive buildings which have appeared since I first visited - Beijing has become a much more vibrant and interesting place. A lot more business is done here.

  George Osborne

  Interesting, Gone, Done

  Source: www.economist.com

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• While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The coast wants to have nothing to do with the interior; it wants to work with Tokyo and New York. This is an old story in China. It is why Mao succeeded in 1927. He wanted [coastal] Shanghai to throw the foreigners out, but Shanghai was doing too well financially [to expel foreigners]. So Mao went to the interior and raised a peasant army. He came back to Shanghai and sealed off the country.

  George Friedman

  Country, New York, Army

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, War, Keys

  "Age of unreason". Interview with Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

  Dick Costolo

  Hashtags, Towns, Blocked

  "Twitter CEO Hopes To Attract Users By Clearing The Clutter". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, nhpr.org. May 2, 2014.

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• When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time, it was all about building, building, building - and then selling, selling, selling. We were working like a manufacturer. Soon, however, we realized that land was running out in Beijing and Shanghai. So we started keeping our buildings, and managing and renting them out. We became landowners. That was the second act.

  Zhang Xin

  Running, Land, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears were so big he could use them for a raincoat. When it rained, he just crept in under his ears and was warm and snug as could be. Not that the ears had such a rattling good time of it, you understand. If it was specially bad weather, he'd invite friends and acquaintances to pitch camp under his ears too. There they sat, singing their sorrowful songs while it poured down outside.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Country, Song, Weather

  Astrid Lindgren (2015). “Pippi Longstocking”, p.33, Oxford University Press - Children

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• I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said Deformed Mans Toilet, that kind of thing.

  David Henry Hwang

  Perfect, Toilets, Kind

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• I'd have to say I'm pretty adventurous. I just went to Shanghai for the Special Olympics and I tried dim sum. I'd never really had it before and some of it looked pretty scary, but I tried it anyway. My philosophy is, you're not going to know if you like it until you try it.

  Brenda Song

  Philosophy, Scary, Special

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

  Paul Johnson

  Dog, Europe, Chinese

  Paul Johnson (1991). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties”, HarperCollins Publishers

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