John Lennon Quotes
It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
Quotes to Explore
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
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For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them a chance to seek justice.
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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.
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The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.
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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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The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
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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.
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There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.
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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.
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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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Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.
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This by no means the last word on the Chinese in America. This is my personal interpretation of the 150-year epic history of Chinese in this country.
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Growth requires risk-taking. If you want to dampen risk and make sure you never have a problem, you do so, but that also will have an effect on growth. This is a decision that doesn't necessarily belong to financial institutions. It belongs to regulators and legislators who represent the body politic.
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People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think about it either way.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
