Cecilia Malmstrom Quotes

It is time for the Chinese to make good on their word.

Cecilia Malmstrom

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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?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Job
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• 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
  • Up
  • Live
  • Children

• I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • Want
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Help
  • Chinese
  • Cinema

• 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.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Help
  • Military
  • Discipline

• I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Fear
  • Understand

• 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.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • People
  • Rest
  • Chinese

• A fine line separates Chinese intellectuals and professors from the political gangsters who protect them.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Political
  • Chinese

• The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Food
  • Chinese

• 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.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Technology
  • Effort
  • Military

• My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Dog
  • Chinese

• Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

  

  David Tang
  • People
  • Chinese

• Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.

  

  Mark Kennedy
  • Live
  • American
  • America

• The call to rein in globalization reflects a belief that it has eliminated jobs in the West, sending them East and South. But the biggest threat to traditional jobs is not Chinese or Mexican; it is a robot.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Chinese
  • Mexican

• I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school in Yorkshire. I've probably romanticised it in my head, but I seem to remember that in the space of an hour's drama workshop, I was transformed. I went in really shy, and I came out full of confidence.

  

  Christian Cooke
  • School
  • Remember
  • Space

• I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Country
  • Feels
  • Poke

• I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Future

• Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water's edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Live
  • Water
  • Sea

• I see so many people. They just seem to be hopeless. Being a Christian and being a pastor, the ultimate hope is in Jesus.

  

  Richie Furay Buffalo Springfield
  • People
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• It is time for the Chinese to make good on their word.

  

  Cecilia Malmstrom
  • Chinese