Chinese Quotes - Page 13

• Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Names, Mind

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.205, Psychology Press

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• Chinese movies are not just about making Chinese local movies. It's about the Chinese money, the Chinese creativeness participating in a global movie. The problem is not the government not supporting this, they of course support this big time. The problem is whether other people are capable of doing the same thing I'm doing.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Government, People, Support

  Source: deadline.com

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• There are a couple of specific things about the show [Into the Badlands]. We didn't want to do a contemporary show, which is always "Chinese cop comes to New York, teams up with racist cop, together they fight crime..."

  Miles Millar

  New York, Couple, Team

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

  Peter Ustinov

  Attitude, Rights, People

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

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• I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

  John Guare

  Names, Venice, People

  "Six Degrees of Separation". www.imdb.com. December 8, 1993.

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• When it comes to the Yellow Races overruning the world, you may laugh ... [The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance to overrun any white country in any way except by intermarriage. One American marine could stand off a great many yellowmen without much effort.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Marine, Yellow

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• People have different goals, when you start out making a movie. If the goal is darkness and destruction and despair, it's not like, "Hey, let's go to set, and then let's hit the bar afterwards. Let's jaunt into London and pick up some Chinese food." No, you go home from set and you go fight at the gym, and then you go to sleep. You stay in it. You never excuse yourself, you never take it easy on yourself, you never eat good food.

  Jon Bernthal

  Sleep, Home, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

  Criss Angel

  Art, Inspiration, Cells

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• The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989.

  Philip French

  Stars, Two, People

  "The Pink Panther" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2006.

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• People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don't know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won't sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats - the rich...the banks...the Chinese.

  Bill Bonner

  Real, People, Upset

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• The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money.

  Joe Klein

  War, Fighting, Europe

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2013.

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• At Berkshire Hathaway we do not like to compete against Chinese manufacturers.

  Charlie Munger

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• If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.

  Ai Weiwei

  Giving Up, Thinking, Government

  "Who Is Ai Weiwei?". Interview with Lucy Birmingham, www.blouinartinfo.com. August 11, 2009.

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• The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Paper, Taught

  P.J. O'Rourke (2011). “Holidays in Heck”, p.143, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a very dear daughter-in-law who's Japanese. I don't know what she's going to make of the film, but I say a few disparaging things.

  Jacki Weaver

  Daughter, Running, Law

  Source: collider.com

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• There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting.

  Woody Allen

  Wall, People, Three

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• I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese.
  I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese.
  I go to Brazilian Christian community. Jesus looks Brazilian.
  How come in America Jesus looks white?

  Dick Gregory

  Christian, Jesus, White

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• There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.

  George Ayittey

  Criticism, Favors, West

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• One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

  Bill Gates

  Government, People, Different

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• A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fire, Numbers, Envy

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• I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.

  Woody Allen

  Work, Shallow, Restaurants

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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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• The Chinese people absolutely need good spiritual examples. They also could use a citizen of their own, who is free and happy, and pleased with them, and represents them in a positive way to the world. Especially now that they're becoming this mega-power, and no longer known as a puppet in the game, or strictly business people.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Games, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view.

  Tim Allen

  Views, Point Of View, Depends

  “Tim Allen: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.

  Michio Kaku

  Lenses, Cost, Paper

  Source: www.pbs.org

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