Quotes and Sayings About Chinese
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
-- Abigail WashburnSource : "What Do China And The Banjo Have In Common?". "TED Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.
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I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.
-- Abigail WashburnSource : "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,
-- Abigail Washburn -
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 -
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Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.
-- Alec BaldwinSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
-- Aleister Crowley -
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!
-- Alicia Sacramone -
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.†- Chinese proverb
-- Alvin Toffler -
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What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. pg 29
-- Amy Chua -
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.
-- Amy Chua -
When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.
-- Anchee Min -
No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.
-- Anchee Min -
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I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.
-- Andy Lau -
For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.
-- Andy Lau -
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western
-- Ang Lee -
I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
-- Ang Lee -
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I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
-- Ang Lee -
These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
-- Ang LeeSource : Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.
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One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, 'Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?'
-- Ann Winterton -
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 -
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At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.
-- Anna Sui -
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.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.
-- Antoni Tapies -
Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact he is not an African at all. He is quite obviously Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it makes those who persist in seeing him as a great African statesman look rather foolish.
-- Auberon Waugh -
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If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
-- Azim Premji -
Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
-- 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.
-- Bai Ling -
If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
-- Bart Gordon -
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If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.
-- Ben Bernanke -
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