Beijing Quotes - Page 3

• At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.

  Erica Jong

  Responsibility, Grandparent, Chinese

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• Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

  Lucy Powell

  Team, Cycling, Example

  "Manchester's sporting success led to Team GB's Olympic glory" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2008.

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• The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.

  Anthony Lane

  Errors, Light, Dresses

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• Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Iran, Effort, Sanctions

  "Coming to Terms with China" by Chalmers Johnson, www.motherjones.com. March 16, 2005.

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• I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

  Ma Jian

  Book, Banned, Left

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire economy of high-tech, high-wage jobs that can be located anywhere there's an internet connection. And today, a child in Chicago is not only competing for jobs with one in Boston, but thousands more in Bangalore and Beijing who are being educated longer and better than ever before.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Jobs, Children

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.

  Zhou Yongkang

  Challenges, Olympics, Faces

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• I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on.

  David Rudisha

  School, Winning, Moved On

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• I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

  Ai Weiwei

  Excuse, Reason, Only Time

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to start his businesses. In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women's rights are human rights. He insulted a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, called her an eating machine.

  Hillary Clinton

  Father, School, Rights

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• When we started out, we didn't really think that the era of great opportunity would end one day. We were much too busy developing our companies. But in today's China you can build a city, even a mega-city like Beijing or Shanghai, within 10 or 15 years. And then you are done. So in real estate development, the Gründerzeit is over. But that is not the case in other sectors.

  Zhang Xin

  Real, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here in public auctions, in a transparent way. When you do real estate development outside Beijing and Shanghai it is good to have "guanxi" - good relations within the local government.

  Zhang Xin

  Real, Government, Land

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when he was making fun of it, I was so embarrassed. I don't mind when the more liberal or moderate Republican women talk about smaller government or money issues and things of that nature. But when I see a conservative Republican woman in line with the Christian right or coming out against abortion and day-care issues and for taking away womens' aid, I see a self-hating, unenlightened woman, like a self-hating Jew. That blows my mind. I don't get it at all.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Christian, Fun, Hate

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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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• Now, the Chinese people are outraged and they are sending clear signals to Beijing: "do not succumb to the West." "If you do, our nation will suffer immensely, and the rest of the world will turn to ashes."

  Andre Vltchek

  People, Chinese, Suffering

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

  Gary Hustwit

  Example, Olympics, Moved

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in the rural areas, that's true. But rural America, you can say the same thing, in Appalachia there's an awful lot of poverty and lack of education.

  Michael Bloomberg

  America, Cities, Awful

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• When we were in Beijing, they were all "it's an honor, you're playing at the oldest rock club in Beijing". And I was all "oh crazy how old is it?" And then were all: "5 years old."Asia is just very different.

  Mac DeMarco

  Crazy, Rocks, Years

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai from the time that he was fifteen. So he's no newcomer or naive when it comes to politics.

  Pico Iyer

  Country, War, Years

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

  Ai Weiwei

  Meaningful, People, Design

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Museums, Modern

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• I am a runner. Last October, there was a marathon here in Beijing. I didn't participate this time, but friends told me that the run wasn't prepared too well. The organizers had only arranged about three hours' worth of food and water supplies. Most people don't finish within three hours, however. Too bad for them - or so it seemed. In fact, however, even those finishing last were perfectly taken care of, particularly during the fourth and fifth hour when demand is highest.

  Zhang Xin

  Running, Taken, Water

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Children, Air, Breathing

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• I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Thinking, Order, World

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• Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.

  Peter York

  Queens, Thinking, Ties

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