Cecilia Malmstrom Quotes
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
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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.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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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.
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I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.
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I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.
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Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.
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I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
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Sultan Aladdin… had few illusions about his own people: amiable, well-favoured, courteous, they loved rest better than industry… their function was to remind the toiling Chinese, Indians and British of the ultimate vanity of labour.
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A fine line separates Chinese intellectuals and professors from the political gangsters who protect them.
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The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution.'
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The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
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The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.
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My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats.
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Learning how to have 'healthy' attachments sounds easy, but in fact, for someone like me who had damaged early relationships, it's like learning to be fluent in Chinese.
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I think that as a Chinese person, nobody will forget that in China's history, there was a war against the Japanese.
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What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
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I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.
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It is time for the Chinese to make good on their word.