Quotes with chinese

  • 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.
  • For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
  • Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
  • Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.
  • 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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  • Bai Ling Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • George Eliot A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • E. J. Hobsbawm As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
    E. J. Hobsbawm
    British historian
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  • Aleister Crowley Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Bill Bradley For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Chatwin I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Jung Chang I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Ang Lee I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • B. D. Wong 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 actor (1960 - )
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  • Bart Gordon If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
    Bart Gordon
    American lawyer (1949 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Ezra Pound Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bob Marley Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
    As quoted in "Bob Marley: Musician" (Infobase Publishing, 2009) by Sherry Paprocki and Sean Dolan, p. 75
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Ang Lee 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.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bob Filner Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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