quotes about Taiwan
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The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.
-- Ang Lee -
My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.
-- Ang Lee -
In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
-- Ang Lee -
Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.
-- Annette Lu -
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Taiwan is democratic.
-- Annette LuSource : "Annette Lu: 'They Made Me Famous'". Interview with Don Shapiro, www.cnn.com. April 19, 2000.
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Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
-- Annette Lu -
We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
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Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.
-- Chen Shui-bian -
I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
-- Coco Lee -
But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
-- Fred Thompson -
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And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC
-- Fred Thompson -
We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.
-- Hu Jintao -
I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.
-- Jeremy Lin -
We expect the Taiwan authorities publicly to correct the record and unambiguously affirm that the February 27 announcement did not abolish the National Unification Council, did not change the status quo, and that the assurances remain in effect.
-- Joseph Adam Ereli -
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I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.
-- Jung Chang -
With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
-- Ma Ying-jeou -
It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.
-- Ma Ying-jeouSource : "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.
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Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.
-- Michael K. Simpson -
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We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.
-- Mike JohannsSource : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.
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Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.
-- Nick Lampson -
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
-- Nick Lampson -
There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.
-- William C. Kirby -
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The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
-- William C. Kirby -
I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.
-- Yani Tseng -
I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV.
-- Chien-Ming Wang -
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Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.
-- Sadiq Khan -
Taiwan's development in the past 20 years in high tech is almost 100 percent related to Silicon Valley.
-- Stan ShihSource : Source: www.sfgate.com