Hong Kong Quotes - Page 2

• I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

  Jung Chang

  Book, Chinese, Taiwan

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• In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

  Chow Yun-Fat

  Romantic, Stars, Hero

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

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• I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Team, Iphone, July

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• Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.

  Joshua Wong

  Rights, Democracy, Teens

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Whether I'm in London, Sydney or Hong Kong, it makes no difference. There is always someone who knows me. I must be one of the most unloneliest people in the world!

  Roy Orbison

  Differences, People, World

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and safeguard the fundamental interests of the country.

  Jiang Zemin

  Country, Long, Great Love

  "Hong Kong's new leaders offer reassuring words". www.cnn.com. July 1, 1997.

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• Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

  Li Ka-shing

  Impact, Numbers, Sound

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• I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.

  Mabel Cheung

  War, Home, Islands

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Hong Kong and Macau are both very dynamic cities. I am always inspired about the culture, people and food in these two cities. There is always so much to do and so much to explore!

  David Beckham

  Cities, Two, People

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• Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.

  Invader

  Art, Nice, Home

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• Each piece that I put in the street is unique. I never make the same piece twice. For Hong Kong, like for every city where I have worked, I try to adapt my work to the culture and the 'colors' of the city.

  Invader

  Unique, Color, Cities

  "Artist Interview: ‘Invader’ on Hong Kong’s ‘Wipe Out’, street art policy – Exclusive". urban-dna.org. May, 2015.

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• Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.

  Jess Row

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.

  Tom Robbins

  Kmart, People, Heaven

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.11, Bantam

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• Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

  Jim Rohn

  Greatness, Waiting, Cameras

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• How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Simple, Government, Miracle

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

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• You will miss out on some near soul mates. This goes for friendships, too. There will be unforgettable people with whom you have shared an excellent evening or a few days. Now they live in Hong Kong, and you will never see them again. That’s just how life is.

  Pamela Druckerman

  People, Missing, Soul

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• It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.

  Robert Orben

  Eggs, Way, Egg Rolls

  Robert Orben (1978). “2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook”, Random House Value Pub

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• Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Adventure, Way, Firsts

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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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• '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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• The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

  Robert Trout

  India, Use, Ugly

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• Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.

  Trevor Manuel

  Effort, Deals, Acceptable

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