Beijing Quotes
61 Beijing quotes by 50 unique authors
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are…
— Erica Jong
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In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big…
— Jet Li
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Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners…
— Lucy Powell
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I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal…
— Ai Weiwei
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.…
— Ai Weiwei
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If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will…
— Evgeny Morozov
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read on video on…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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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 know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better…
— Vijender Singh
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I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of…
— Osric Chau
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
— Marc Andreessen
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Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing…
— Martin Jacques
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Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening…
— Ben Shapiro
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While Google no longer has a search engine operation inside China, it has maintained a large presence in Beijing and Shanghai focused on research and…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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Beijing is my favorite city in China.
— Andrew Lau
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
— Ma Jian
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So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
— John Lone
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The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while…
— Ai Weiwei
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The way you can go to Paris or Beijing and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological quivalent of franchised life-forms. Every place…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Got a China bitch, straight from Beijing. P*ssy so tight all she do is scream.
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Beijing Quotes
50 authors contributed a total of 61 Beijing Quotes, led by these top contributors: