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Tag Name "Chinese" (721)

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A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.
Janice Y. K. Lee
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
Iris Chang
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I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
Ang Lee
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If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.
Li Na
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We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?
Jeb Hensarling
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The Chinese economy has huge potential and flexibility.
Li Keqiang
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With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World
Xiang Yu
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The Chinese are a knowing people and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.
Christina Stead
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We had Chinese artists that would put in elements for the Chinese audience like the calligraphy actually means something so the audience when they read it they'll understand. So there were definitely little things we were able to do that specifically leveraged the artists' talents.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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If Apple is enslaving Chinese to make its iPhones, you don't need to eat the i-Phone, you need to make sure that Apple is paying a living wage to someone, and then it adds a dollar to the cost of iphones, and everybody's cool.
Bill McKibben
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I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.
Andy Lau
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Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.
Jennifer Lee
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There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'
Yao Ming
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Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!
Kurt Vonnegut
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius
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Actually, the few good Chinese movies that foreign countries choose to import are Zhang Yimou's, and mine, a few directors, but how many movies can we make in a year? We can only make a few, while they turn them out continuously.
Jackie Chan
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Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously?
Jim Jefferies
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China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.
Francis Fukuyama
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Hot Plants enhance sexual experience. They increase sensitivity and make sex more urgent. Men get better erections. Women benefit, too. Your orgasms are like Chinese New Year fireworks.
Chris Kilham
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My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.
Kirstie Alley
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie
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Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.
Charles Dickens
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As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.
Henry Adams
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The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
Marian Keyes
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