Quotes by Chinese/China authors (page 13)

"But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them"

Bai Ling, Actress

"I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about"

Bai Ling, Actress

"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education"

Zhuang Zi, Philosopher

"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous"

Zhuang Zi, Philosopher

"We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions... and we need to do it under tight control"

Wu Yi, Politician

"When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore"

Ang Lee, Director

"To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late"

Ang Lee, Director

"Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself"

Ang Lee, Director

"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans"

Ang Lee, Director

"Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance"

Yao Ming, Athlete

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live"

Lin Yutang, Author

"The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general"

Jiang Zemin, Leader

"I would like to do some musicals"

Andy Lau, Actor

"I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit"

Andy Lau, Actor

"I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia"

Andy Lau, Actor

"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own"

Chiang Kai-shek, Soldier

"I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me"

Ziyi Zhang, Actress

"I've come to the conclusion that everybody should marry, including me"

Anna May Wong, Actress

"Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul"

Anna May Wong, Actress

"When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left"

Ang Lee, Director

"When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them"

Ang Lee, Director

"The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword"

Ang Lee, Director

"Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is"

Ang Lee, Director

"My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story"

Ang Lee, Director

"I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama"

Ang Lee, Director

"Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun"

Ang Lee, Director

"I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit"

Jiang Qing, Revolutionary

"Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick"

Lin Yutang, Author

"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought"

Lin Yutang, Author

"Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks"

Lin Yutang, Author

"A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from"

Lin Yutang, Author

"In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population"

Lin Biao, Politician

"I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar"

Andy Lau, Actor

"Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong"

Andy Lau, Actor

"We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures"

Li Peng, Public Servant

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Quotes by Chinese authors