Hong Kong Quotes

• Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.

  James Chanos

  Real, Loan, Projects

  "Jim Chanos' One Big China Regret" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. May 24, 2011.

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• When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Stories, Wanted

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• The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

  Paul Theroux

  People

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• You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Stuff, Tokyo, Argument

  "Anthony Bourdain’s Off-the-Menu Travel Tips". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.

  Camilla Belle

  Cute, Girl, Thinking

  "Abdul pretends her bad video didn't happen". www.today.com. February 21, 2008.

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• One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Goal, Would Be

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• There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

  Andy Lau

  Artistic, Kind

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• Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to.

  Frank Abagnale

  Russia, Criminals, Sitting

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• It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them.

  Srikumar Rao

  People, Boss, Toxic

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• Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

  Anthony Holden

  Views, Cities, Dying

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• I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

  Andy Lau

  Idols, Asia

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• I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

  Andy Lau

  Rocks, Cinema, World

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• If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

  Jackie Chan

  Way, Chaotic, Ifs

  "Jackie Chan Says 'Chinese Need to Be Controlled'". Boao Forum, www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2009.

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• When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

  Jet Li

  My Family, Felt

  "TalkAsia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2003.

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• Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.

  Chris Patten

  Vision, East, Asia

  "Governor defends Hong Kong democracy in final speech" by Mike Chinoy, www.cnn.com. October 2, 1996.

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• Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia.

  Eleanor Coppola

  Asia, Supermarkets

  Eleanor Coppola (1979). “Notes”, Amadeus Press

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• Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

  Prince Charles

  Successful, Earth

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

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• American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

  Jackie Chan

  Hurt, Smart, Distance

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• Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Travel, Want, Pleasure

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• English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

  Bai Ling

  Thinking, Hollywood, Different

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• Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

  Chris Patten

  Winning, People, Want

  "Hong Kong’s Democratic Aspirations Not a Threat to China" by Lord Patten, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2014.

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• That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

  Chow Yun-Fat

  Mother, Lines, Way

  "Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. December 27, 1999.

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• The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.

  Martin Yan

  Chinese, Division, Problem

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• At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

  Martin Yan

  Leaving, Restaurants, Made

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• And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Real, Years, People

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