Quotes with chinese

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  • Billie Holiday 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.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Anna Louise Strong So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Bret Harte That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Caleb Deschanel The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Ben Gibbard The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Pearl S. Buck We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Calvin Trillin When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Barbara Demick 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
    American journalist
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  • John F. Kennedy When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and one represents opportunity.
    Indianapolis, 12-04-1959
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • John F. Kennedy Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Lee You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Ad Reinhardt I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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