Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Having a Chinese mum and Jamaican dad, creative jobs are not particularly at the forefront. — Griff Copy Share Image
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from. — Patrice O'Neal Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Only on a few occasions had I ever been comfortable showing my body off, and now here I was, taking a job… — Teresa Lo Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Emphasis in China is done aggressively. Sometimes, this is done rudely, but most of the time it's just done routinely. It's just… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want… — David Wessel Copy Share Image
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close… — Gail Ann Dorsey Copy Share Image
Once you're president, you can't go anywhere without causing trouble. President Obama shows up in China, he's chewing gum, they go crazy.… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
I engage with New York and America but my parents pretty much hang out in this radius of Long Island where their… — Himanshu Suri Copy Share Image
I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I can't imagine here would be a Chinese Gorbachev. But the party will gradually open up. For instance, it has already set… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
I am really close to the Chinese government. And I have a chance to talk to them, listen to them. — Thaksin Shinawatra Copy Share Image
The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from… — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the… — Lottie Moon Copy Share Image
Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The moment you have subtitles and you have to speak Chinese, you already limit your global audience. — Bruno Zheng Wu Copy Share Image
Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and… — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
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