Chinese Quotes - page 22

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest. (Iris Chang)
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. View quote
Iris Chang
One China; peace on both sides of the (Taiwan) Strait; mutually beneficial integration; strive for a Chinese revival. View quote
Lien Chan
Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Beijing: New World Press, 1994), p. 54. View quote
Wang Zhihuan
I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day! View quote
Alicia Sacramone
Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed. View quote
Aaron Sanchez
I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. View quote
Andy Lau
For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese. View quote
Andy Lau
For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me. View quote
Abigail Washburn
The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations. View quote
Anthony Albanese
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot. (Arne Glimcher)
With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries. View quote
Aubrey McClendon
Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey. View quote
Bai Ling
I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't. View quote
Bai Ling
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. View quote
Bill Bradley
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. View quote
Bob Filner
In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba. View quote
Bubba Sparxxx
Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books. View quote
Cai Guo-Qiang
I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major. View quote
Charles Soule
The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home? View quote
Chen Guangcheng
As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict. (Chen-Ning Yang)
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness. View quote
Criss Angel
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. View quote
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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. View quote
David Tang
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese. View quote
David Tang