595 Chinese Quotes for You to Enjoy

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am. Gene Luen Yang

Church Define Both Household Catholic Catholic Church Am Up American Experiences Chinese Much Who Growing Growing Up

I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them. Gene Luen Yang

I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion. Gene Luen Yang

Rebellion Finished Born Boxer American After Chinese Researching Actively Started

In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry. Gene Luen Yang

When 'American Born Chinese' started getting a lot of attention, I freaked out a little bit because I realized that up until then I had just been doing comics by following my gut. I didn't really know much about plot structure or anything; I kind of just followed my gut. Gene Luen Yang

Bit Out Plot Kind Freaked Born Followed Following Gut About Structure Had Attention Know Until Because Comics Doing Been Lot Up American Getting Just Anything Chinese Little Little Bit Realized Then Much Really Started

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. Gene Tierney

Girl Arabian Cast Throughout Aristocrat Frontier Chinese Career

There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China. George Ayittey

Best Criticism Building Resources Evidence Favor Must Best Friend Structured Colonial Exchange Main Raw Since Deal Deals Got West Friend Africa China Chinese Infrastructure Then Show Belief

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. George Eliot

Happiness Woman Heart Made Recipe Else Pressed Must Small Cakes Feet Like Fixed Size Chinese Larger Her

We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy. George Osborne

Business Better More Economy Doing China Chinese Should Connected

We want to make sure that we have the right products for Chinese people. Gillian Tans

People Make Sure Want Chinese Chinese People Products Right

Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese. Godfrey Gao

Strange Sometimes Per Look Read Because Am Cent Chinese

I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don't believe in destiny. There are many things that can be changed. I don't like to be defeated by difficulties. I love freedom, so when I am shaping a character, I usually do it the way I want. I always find some part of my own character in a role. Gong Li

Love Freedom Character Woman Personality Strong Own Believe Difficulties Changed Guess Way Destiny Find Some My Own Shaping Part Like Always Am Role Modern Want Chinese Many Things Defeated

The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because so many Chinese families send their kids abroad to study, they are familiar with foreign cultures, so Hollywood films are very successful in China. Gong Li

Good People World Money Big Films Kids Good Place Abroad Study Looks Make Because Foreign Lot Cultures Very Familiar Families Send Place China Chinese Hollywood Successful Many

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments. Guy Gavriel Kay

Gifted Classical Instruments Truly Fang Chinese Player

I'm something of a foodie, I guess, and I'm a big Chinese food fan. H. Jon Benjamin

Food Big Guess Something Fan Chinese Chinese Food

In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected. Hailey Gates

Woman People Be Kind Language Tears Interviewing Tell Kind Follow Emotional Sort Tracks Because Coming Very Unexpected Just Where Burst China Chinese Hard Moment Things Tonal

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border. Harrison Salisbury

Year Military Side State Visited Presumably Border Constant Weapons Area Readiness Targets Trained Chinese Across Nuclear Last Nuclear Weapons Last Year

The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years. Harry Triguboff

War Good Russians Were Years Very China Chinese Us

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction. Helmut Jahn

You People Beauty Way Come Know Talk Very Expect Just Interaction Chinese Little Room Farce Filled Presentation

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people. Henry Charles Carey

People Men Free Side Ruined System Ourselves India Adopting Free Trade Poisoning Trade Ireland Place Chinese Chinese People Who Now British

It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other. Henry Kissinger

History World Roman Empire Every Other Able About Could Never Had Simultaneously Empire Reach Know Continent Affect Roman Interacting Happened Chinese Region Much Means Each Now

As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like. Henry Paulson

Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones. Henry Paulson

Hurt Practices Foreign Private Chinese Much Nearly

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