Chinese Quotes
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I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
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Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
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My basic advice to the Chinese with respect to the South China Sea is, 'Hey, guys, cool it.'
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When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.
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On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
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Panda - We're not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.
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The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family... but as the head of the family.
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It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.
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In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.
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With a far-future setting merging Chinese and American culture, 'Firefly' also saw high-tech futurism blended with the traditional Wild West.
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Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
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Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.
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Young Chinese, who have grown up in an age of prosperity and stability, are typically the most passionate defenders of the Chinese political and economic way.
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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.'
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As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."
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People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.
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I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently.'
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We can't have our industry progressively destroyed by cheap Chinese imports.
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Why are you attracted only to Chinese nonsense?
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I look like I'm Chinese or Thai or Japanese - very different.
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The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.
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This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.
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In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists - highly qualified, all Ph.D.s from the best universities of the world. And guess what? They're all women.
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Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
