Chinese Quotes

If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

The moment you have subtitles and you have to speak Chinese, you already limit your global audience.

I am financing global pictures with global talents. Of course I will bring in the Chinese elements, yet you have to have global talents to create a global picture.

I don't believe Chinese movies should only have Chinese cast and talents shooting it with a Chinese story.

I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

It is time for the Chinese to make good on their word.

We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal government stolen by the Chinese and he's done nothing in return.

If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before.

Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

The President Barack Obama said if we get out of this business of trade expansion, we turn it over to the Chinese. This brings us into partnership with 11 other Pacific Rim countries.

The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

So far China has won the most gold medals, ladies and gentlemen. The Chinese athletes can't wait to get home and show the medals off to the kids who made them.

Never seek illicit wealth.

Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

Ive studied Chinese in college, but basically, Im not bilingual.

John McCain turned 72 years old last Friday, but the Chinese are making him a birth certificate that says he's only 33 and then he'll be ready to go.

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

I think the one thing that's going on here is that people are saying, uh-oh, the Chinese economy might be slowing more than we thought and the government is having a hard time stimulating it again.

Chinese don't really believe in markets. They like stability, they like control.

I think the Chinese are really amateurs when it comes to running markets.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

Now if I lived in my land, which I do, if I lived in Iceland, if I lived in Greensland I'd still have Chinese children, but out of my ears my little grey baby hears.

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into her private hedge fund. The Russians, the Saudis, the Chinese - all gave money to Bill And Hillary and got favourable treatment in return.

I understand China, and I understand the Chinese mind. I understand where they're coming from. They are not our friend.

Look what [Chinese] are doing, they're building a massive fortress against everything. A massive fortress in the South China Sea. And yet they're ripping us off.

If [Chinese] are going to rip us off, you wouldn't think they'd be building fortresses.

[Chinese] have no respect for our President - which I can understand that - they have no respect for [Barack] Obama, they have no respect for our country, and they're getting away with murder.

They [Chinese] are taking our jobs, they're giving incentives, they're doing things that, frankly, we don't do.

The fact is that the Chinese are taking advantage of America. And by the way, the Chinese can't even believe that they're getting away with it.

The Chinese view us as an enemy, very, very militant toward the United States, and I don't even think the United States knows it.

The politicians in America are all taken over by the lobbyists. I really believe the lobbyists keep them shut up because China and Chinese companies have all got tremendous lobbyists.

The Chinese are the greatest that ever came about, they are the greatest currency manipulators ever.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.