John Lennon Quotes

It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

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• I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Wish
  • Speak
  • Chinese

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

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Man
  • Chinese

• The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Live
  • Political
  • Freedom

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• 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

• If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Career
  • Myself

• For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them a chance to seek justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Trying
  • Justice
  • Chance

• When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Sometimes
  • Learn
  • Daily

• The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Rock
  • Democracy
  • Moment

• 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

• The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Food
  • Chinese
  • Tea

• As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

  

  Eric Hobsbawm
  • People
  • Chinese

• I'm doing activations with companies you would never think of. Not to say this in a braggadocious way, but I'm not putting myself in a box. The only thing that goes in a box is Chinese food and your sneakers - not me.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Food
  • Chinese

• There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

  

  James Comey
  • 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

• I think that as a Chinese person, nobody will forget that in China's history, there was a war against the Japanese.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • War
  • History
  • Chinese

• I just really, really love food, so I don't have a favourite. But if I had to pick one to eat every day, it would be Italian. But I also love Chinese and Japanese food.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Food
  • Chinese
  • Italian

• Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

  

  Socrates
  • Soul
  • Eyes
  • Body

• I haven't been like, 'Is there a sword in that movie? All right, I'll do it!'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Movie

• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • Ocean

• It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Chinese
  • Revolutions
  • Cult