quotes about Shanghai

last updated: November 28, 2023

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.
-- Dick Costolo

Source : "Twitter CEO Hopes To Attract Users By Clearing The Clutter". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, nhpr.org. May 2, 2014.

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Now I am master of Shanghai.
-- Iwane Matsui

Source : "America Views China: American Images of China Then and Now". Book by Jonathan Goldstein, p. 19, 1991.

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I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.
-- Marcus Brigstocke

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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
-- Ralph Fiennes

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If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!
-- Tom Hardy

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“I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.”

Source : "For Lenin, read Lennon", www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2000.
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

Source : Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.90, New World Library
“No one ever understood disaster until it came.”

Source : Josephine Herbst (1977). “Nothing is sacred”, Arno Pr
“A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited.”
“Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].”
“My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.”
“I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.”
“The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.”

Source : Michael Polanyi (2012). “Personal Knowledge”, p.221, Routledge
“Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.”
“The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and they were captured and convicted of the same things. And we should remember them and treat them like the heroes they are.”