"I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret……" — John Pomfret
"I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China."
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John Pomfret
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27 Quotes by John Pomfret
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I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in…
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But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are…
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When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
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The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
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And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
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I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I…
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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and…
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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
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A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a…
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I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the…
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I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have…
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More China Quotes
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I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the…
— Julian Assange
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.
— Giorgio Armani
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see…
— Diane Ackerman
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Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the…
— Joe Baca
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What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the…
— Michele Bachmann
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I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China,…
— Antonio Banderas
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China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all…
— Robert Benchley
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I always love China, especially the old China.
— Manolo Blahnik
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China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to…
— Michael Bloomberg
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