"I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street."
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"Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?"
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"[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China."
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"Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . ."
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"Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much."
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"The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world."
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"In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain."
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"It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same."
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"Never seek illicit wealth."
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"In the news, Chinese president Hu Jintao says that now that Barack Obama has been elected, he is looking forward to taking the relationship between China and the U.S. to the next level. That's what he said. Yeah. Then he said, 'Who knows, maybe we'll even go all the way.'"
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"The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News."
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"London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home."
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"I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am."
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"Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western."
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"Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures."
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"I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast."
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"Burma is located between China, India, and South East Asia. So it is quite natural that a country wanting diplomatic relations with our country would pay attention to who our regional neighbors are. It is not at all fair to ask a country to build relations with Burma but not take into account the situation in China. There is no way to think that taking the Chinese situation into consideration shows a disregard for Burma."
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"I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market."
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"There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting."
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"I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world."
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