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

• The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• 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

• Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Know

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

  

  Weili Dai
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Think
  • Language
  • Chinese

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

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Fear
  • Understand

• I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

  

  Amy Tan
  • Children
  • Character
  • American

• 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 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.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • True
  • Reality

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

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Food
  • Chinese

• When many Chinese escaped to North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, we embraced them. People in China have forgotten about this.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Chinese

• I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

  

  David Carradine
  • Funny
  • Chinese

• I don’t think they (the Chinese) have better friends in Africa than us. But when we compare to how much money we get, if we succeed, if the MCA is funded by the US Congress for Tanzania, it’s going to be $700 Million. It’s going to be huge, it may be a total of all the Chinese have been giving us all these years.

  

  Jakaya Kikwete
  • Money
  • May
  • Friends

• 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
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Movie

• Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly.

  

  John Lasseter
  • World
  • Great

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

  

  Cecilia Malmstrom
  • Chinese