Chinese Quotes
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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
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The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.
Barbara Demick
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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
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
Dalai Lama
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There's a huge interest in the Chinese market, and Hollywood has a huge interest in the Chinese market with films like 'Transformers' making more money over there than here.
Daniel Wu
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Being on the ground in Mongolia and traveling with the horse culture and sleeping in yurts, I was able to pick up a lot of detail. But I brought in advisors to work with our horse master to make sure the fighting strategies both on the Chinese and Mongolian sides were very accurate.
John Fusco
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The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
Ferdinand Marcos
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
Iris Chang
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
Iris Chang
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
Harry Browne
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I am Chinese. I speak fluent Mandarin. And I go, 'Man, it's about time a Chinese person could step up to a Hollywood screen, and international screen, and help save the world.'
Ludi Lin
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There is no single 'China model' to running a mega-economy. Instead, it is a blend. From the Europeans and the Japanese, the Chinese have borrowed the concept of protecting essential industries.
David E. Sanger
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Chinese consumers don't book hotel rooms that are as expensive as U.S. consumers.
Dara Khosrowshahi
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
Abigail Washburn
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If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
Gary Locke
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I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.
Abigail Washburn
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With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries...What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.
Lee Kuan Yew
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.
Patrick Chan
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
Pankaj Mishra
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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.
Ma Jian
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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
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My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats.
Jason Wu
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Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.
Donella Meadows