Chinese Quotes - Page 8

• Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

  Jack Valenti

  Cinema, Demand, Helping

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• Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.

  Charles Bass

  Design, Spy, Important

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• Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.

  Tom Brokaw

  Government, Differences, Personality

  "New Again: Tom Brokaw". Interview with Gale Lopez, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Woody Allen once said: "You know there must be intelligent life in space. The question is do they have good Chinese restaurants and do they deliver?" Which is really a joke, but it is also a very profound remark. When you say do they have good Chinese restaurants, what you're really saying is, "How much are they like us?" And when you say, "Do they deliver?" you're saying, "Can they get here?" Both of which are profound questions. And at the present, we have no answers.

  Gene Wolfe

  Intelligent, Space, Profound

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• I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

  Alicia Sacramone

  Dresses, Pieces, Paper

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• I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

  Kim Young-sam

  Sorry, Two, Police

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• The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.

  Manmohan Singh

  Running, Party, Believe

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• I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Contact, Journalist

  "Edward Snowden flatly denies Chinese spy claims" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Europe, America, Should

  Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger and Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 06, 2007.

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• I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

  Tom Verlaine

  Quality, Sound, Wonder

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• Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

  Maya Lin

  Parent, Would Be, Eras

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• Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

  Robert Trout

  Enemy, Poison, Saws

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• It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Dancer, Groups, Actors

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• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Clothes, Flesh, Modest

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

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• I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Opportunity, Thinking, Agency

  Source: deadline.com

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• Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

  Daniel Yergin

  Thinking, World, Want

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• If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fighting, Thinking, Want

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• If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Watches, Language, Subtitles

  Source: deadline.com

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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, Hong Kong, Chinks

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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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• We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

  Salvador Dali

  Chinese Revolution, Remember, Peasants

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• The moment you have subtitles and you have to speak Chinese, you already limit your global audience.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Limits, Speak, Moments

  Source: deadline.com

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• I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Mean, People, China

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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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• I am financing global pictures with global talents. Of course I will bring in the Chinese elements, yet you have to have global talents to create a global picture.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Elements, Talent, Courses

  Source: deadline.com

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