Able Quote by Sandrine Holt

The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners…

— Anita Roddick

I am taking Chinese lessons and I practice speaking Mandarin almost every day.

— Choi Si-won

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took…

— Mira Sorvino

“On a recent flight from Tokyo to Beijing, at around the time that my lunch tray was taken away, I remembered that I needed…

— David Sedaris

So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda…

— Eric Nam

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and…

— Jeremy Lin

The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will…

— Quentin Tarantino

When I was at Yale, I was one of the students chosen to go to China. I lived there for 1-1/2 years and I…

— Kevin Olusola

I went back to China and did a movie in Mandarin, and I don't speak Mandarin, so I learned it phonetically. Now, when I'm…

— Maggie Q

“I had to learn Mandarin. And I had the best teacher – necessity. You can study a language for years at school, but nothing…

— Hyeonseo Lee

The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that I don't…

— Tony Leung Chiu Wai

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

— Rupert Murdoch