John Dickerson Quotes
The Chinese, our allies, have been allies with North Korea.
John Dickerson
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
Hailey Gates
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
Ma Jian
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Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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'Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.
Katie Leung
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These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
Ang Lee
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There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit.
Jonathan Galassi
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Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.
Flannery O'Connor
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We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.
Yehudi Menuhin
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The Chinese, our allies, have been allies with North Korea.
John Dickerson
