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• Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. — Alec Baldwin
• I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed… — Martha Beck
• Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance… — John Berger
• The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part… — Anthony Bourdain
• We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. — Pearl S. Buck
• Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. — Pearl S. Buck
• Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. — Pearl S. Buck
• Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next… — Buzz Aldrin
• All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the… — Buzz Aldrin
• To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the… — Buzz Aldrin
• We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male… — Nicolas Cage
• We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused… — David Cameron

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