Ma Jian Quotes
On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
Quotes to Explore
-
I had no expectations of white people at all.
-
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
-
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
-
I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
-
I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
-
I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
-
I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
-
Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
-
Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
-
For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
-
You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
-
The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
-
The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
-
It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
-
Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
-
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
-
Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
-
Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
-
I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.
-
Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.
-
I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.
-
The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships and the most ruthless attempts to deprive human beings of their humanity. Nevertheless, some people resist the idea that his core has a biological basis which we have inherited from our pre-human ancestors.
-
Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.
-
On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
