Elena Kagan Quotes

Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!

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• My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!

  

  Lake Bell
  • Always
  • Drawing
  • Restaurant

• I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Beginning
  • Feel

• Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Up
  • Same
  • Tragedy

• The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Man
  • Chinese

• Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Jews
  • Slaves
  • Neurotics

• 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

• BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Look
  • Creative
  • Restaurant

• I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Want
  • Alone
  • Restaurant

• I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Team
  • Community
  • Restaurant

• When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Jews

• 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

• It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Culture
  • Learn
  • Chinese

• In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • You
  • Community
  • Chinese

• Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Want
  • Change

• I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Nice
  • Find

• 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

• My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Society
  • Friendship

• Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Career
  • Girl
  • Chinese

• I hope that Los Altos is one of the first cities to have self-driving cars, and if that's true, well, awesome, because there's a lot of parking lots that we could get rid of and use for parks. That would be amazing!

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • True
  • Hope
  • Amazing

• To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Math
  • Extent

• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Habit
  • Differences
  • Hearts

• A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Life
  • Day
  • Morning

• Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Chinese
  • Jews
  • Restaurant