Chinese Quotes - Page 10

• To me, Toronto is a good party city, I think Vancouver has the best smoke, you know. And then, Montreal has the best..uh..Chinese food?

  Kid Ink

  Party, Thinking, Cities

  Source: bestfan.com

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• Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

  Gish Jen

  People, Needs, Language

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.

  Michael Anti

  Rights, Media, People

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• I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.

  Warren Buffett

  Toys

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• John McCain turned 72 years old last Friday, but the Chinese are making him a birth certificate that says he's only 33 and then he'll be ready to go.

  David Letterman

  Friday, Years, Lasts

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• Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who gains popularity by damaging the United States, while the other guy runs China.

  Argus Hamilton

  Running, Guy, President

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• If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to make enemies rather than friends in the Arab-Islamic world. And if you didn't know better, you might think that the Chinese government's approach to the Olympics is being set by people trying to make the country look bad.

  James Fallows

  Country, Islamic, Thinking

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• In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It seemed as if the goddess of wisdom - Sharada, represented by waters of Kashmir, was unwilling to let me abduct the manuscript. This is what happened 1200 years ago to the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, who had to leave his Sanskrit manuscript in the angry Indus River.

  Aurel Stein

  Night, Lakes, Years

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• I did want to become a novelist, but the program at Waseda was pretty intense in terms of language requirements - two hours of English and four hours of Chinese. I thought, what do I need this for? So I stopped going to class.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Two, Class, Novelists

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An African American in a white world. A Jew in a Christian world. A gypsy. A Native American. A Chinese American. Let's say, you were born deprived.

  Gerald Stern

  Christian, Wall, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

  Zhang Xin

  Economy, Currency, Good Things

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I decided to endow $100 million to set up the SOHO China Scholars. This program will give financial aid to Chinese students so they can attend the best universities in the world.

  Zhang Xin

  Husband, Years, Zuckerberg

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

  Zhang Xin

  Support, Entrepreneur, Guy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money to give brilliant Chinese students an opportunity to study abroad, then this embodies everything I believe in: education, globalization, social mobility. I am an example of social mobility.

  Zhang Xin

  Believe, Heart, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow.

  Zhang Xin

  Democracy, China, Accommodations

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but it is still ubiquitous.

  David Rees

  Communication, Mean, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We had Chinese artists that would put in elements for the Chinese audience like the calligraphy actually means something so the audience when they read it they'll understand. So there were definitely little things we were able to do that specifically leveraged the artists' talents.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Mean, Artist, Elements

  "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation". Interview with Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.

  Sam Hamill

  Lincoln Center, Scholar, Dictionary

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I think the one thing that's going on here is that people are saying, uh-oh, the Chinese economy might be slowing more than we thought and the government is having a hard time stimulating it again.

  David Wessel

  Hard Times, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is the fact that - people have had a lot of confidence that the Chinese leadership could fix what is wrong with their economy so it wouldn't have ripple effects around the world. I think that confidence is being shaken by how difficult it is for them to manage their stock market and their currency.

  David Wessel

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want to depend more on exports if you're a country that has a stated policy of relying less on exports and more on consumer spending, domestic spending?

  David Wessel

  Country, Thinking, May

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the Chinese are really amateurs when it comes to running markets.

  David Wessel

  Running, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you look at ancient Chinese culture, and depictions of it, the relationship between people and nature was very different. It almost felt as though feelings were always attached to a certain landscape.

  Jia Zhangke

  People, Feelings, Different

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• I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Thinking, United States

  "Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People". Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 1, 2012.

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• They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course, Dalai Lama would be ideal. In another ten years from now though, he won't have the time to be really effective for them. They're truly wasting their time not using him now.

  Robert Thurman

  Years, People, Would Be

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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