Hong Kong Quotes - Page 4

• I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.

  Adelaide Clemens

  Girl, Memories, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I hit the bong
  I'm Godzilla takin' over Hong Kong
  Eatin' wonton with a shotgun in long johns.

  Redman

  Rap, Long, Hip Hop

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• Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Zero, Clothes, Mcdonalds

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.

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• 'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?

  Linda Ellerbee

  Mean, Government, America

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• As we open the gates to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, we know that millions of guests will open their hearts to this fantasy world where characters and stories spring to life, where dreams come true and where families will have fun together.

  Jay Rasulo

  Dream, Fun, Spring

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• After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

  Shay Mitchell

  School, Vancouver, Thailand

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

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• I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

  Jet Li

  Cnn, Big Families, Watches

  "'The World Is My Oyster'". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com. Apr 12, 2000.

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• I've been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn't ask for a more enriched life so far.

  Dakota Fanning

  Crazy, Opportunity, Years

  "Push - Dakota Fanning interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In a way, this is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Differences, Community, Chinese

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Buddhists and Taoists of the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan share the same roots and instructions and have always maintained sound exchanges.

  Jia Qinglin

  Buddhist, Roots, Sound

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• Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.

  William Kittredge

  Mean, Thinking, Intimate Relationships

  William Kittredge (2010). “The Nature of Generosity”, p.13, Vintage

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• I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.

  Celina Jade

  Book, Play, Arrows

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• Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.

  Kristen Stewart

  Brother, Asian, Different

  Interview with Jon Favreau, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2009.

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• The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians.

  Joel Garreau

  Cities, Chinese, Toronto

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• You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Hands, Chinese, Chinks

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• There's a McDonalds in Hong Kong & they're offering couples the opportunity to get married. You can have a McWedding.

  Chelsea Handler

  Couple, Opportunity, Offering

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• The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off... and the standard of living has multiplied.

  John Templeton

  Government, Hands, Progress

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• This distraction is what one wants, which is very, very bad for the muse, because the muse hates not being in the line of sight. It's no longer an external conflict, like, oh, I have all these demands and I don't like them. The split is in the self. This may explain why, when I was in Santa Barbara before I went to Singapore and then now to Hong Kong, there was a writing moment when I was writing a poem a day. I had never done that before.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Hate, Writing, Sight

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Cities, Sitting Down, Needs

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• While we were shooting the movie, we shot in the actual hotel in Hong Kong where it all went down, the Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras was coming to Hong Kong to do a screening of Citizenfour, and she ended up staying at the Mira Hotel. It was her first time back in Hong Kong, and I ran into her in the elevator. Literally I had just finished shooting one day, and I came back to the hotel and she was in the elevator.

  Zachary Quinto

  One Day, Firsts, Shooting

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Thinking, Want, Portraits

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

  Jet Li

  Remember, Kung Fu, Demonstration

  Interview with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2003.

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• Hong Kong is the bellwether. If the Chinese stick to their agreement to let Hong Kong go its own path, then China will also go that way. If they don't, that is a very bad sign. I'm optimistic.

  Milton Friedman

  Optimistic, Agreement, Chinese

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees - all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies - go on these Sunday shows and they say: "Snowden was a traitor. He works against Americans. He works for the Chinese. Oh, wait, he left Hong Kong - he works for the Russians."

  Edward Snowden

  Party, Sunday, Agency

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

  Edward Snowden

  Strong, People, Republic

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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