Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lobsang Wangyal

I have picked a Chinese film at a Tibetan film festival purely for the breathtaking special effects and not for any political reason.

Mark White

I love the traditional sound of a guy like Wes or Jim Hall and when I'm playing that type of music I gravitate to that kind of sound.

I'm sure it's not lost on Microsoft executives that the world's third largest computer company is from China. Microsoft has a problem: PC growth is highest in emerging markets like China, where software piracy rates are high. China deals could be construed as generating goodwill, which Microsoft would want to use to gain greater Chinese government cooperation fighting piracy.

In five years, I can see the emergence of a Chinese software company.

No logging permits are given to this area, there is no transport system, not a single road. But clearly with time everything is a threat. In the next few decades there will be strong demands, especially if you think of the timber needs of nearby countries like China and Japan. They will be very hungry for logs.

Ian Lowe

No matter how strong and how valid the assurances that China or any other country gives us, once we export uranium it's outside of our control, so we're making the world a dirtier and more dangerous place by exporting uranium.

John Engler

It's time for China to play by the rules.

Li Na

I want to go to Shenzhen or somewhere down south to work as a waitress or in a factory. I don't want to do what my mom does. Life's too tough as a Chinese farmer.

I want to leave something for sports and expand the influence of sports in China and the world.

I want to keep manufacturing here because I want people to be safe wearing safety glasses. With the Chinese imports, some of their products are just as good as ours and some are inferior, and you never know which you're going to get.

David Carradine

It turned out that this stuff that the Chinese guys do is not really kung fu. It's very different and I did need to learn how to do that.

It that hadn't happened, Chinatown would have died.

It took a long time for wheat to become successfully naturalized in China. It gradually spread from northwestern China to the East and to the South.

It will facilitate the world's space research if Russia, China and the European Union join hands on space research.

It will definitely go past France, so for sure China is going to be the number five economy in the world.

It will be good for Chinese tennis. In the near future, I think we could be better, make progress, improve a lot.

It will take five to 10 years for China to become a major force. We're still talking relatively small numbers. I can easily see 100-percent growth in the next couple of years.

They come from China and in that culture, respect is extremely important. Initially they didn't feel that they had it from Inverness and they felt they had to earn it.

They claim it's loss of market share and I sort of indicated 'were they importing from China and South Africa' and they say 'not', there's just been a real downturn in their market and they've lost their share.

The two appointments underscore the government's intention to do what is needed to meet the goals set out for financial reforms... and to better control its China policy. While they are seasoned executives at government firms, they are still more of policy executors rather than policy makers.

The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.

The U.S. government is continuing its effort to get China -- as a responsible and mature player in the rules-based global trading system -- to play by the rules.

The U.S. economy is doing pretty well while the worldwide economy is taking it on the chin so people are starting to think that the U.S. is the place to invest in.

David Cohen

The U.S. and China continue as the primary engines of export growth for the region, and we are seeing improvements in Europe and Japan as well. Export strength is helping support investment and consumer demand.

Raghuram Rajan

The U.S. and China are running on processes which in the long run are unsustainable. Oil prices are proving an increasing strain on growth.

The vast majority of Chinese air-to-air missile sales are to its own government, and those that are exported have little effect on the overall market. Japan is forbidden to export weapons and Taiwan has yet to sell an air-to-air missile to a foreign customer.

Chuck Grassley

They are making it possible for a very close vote in the House of Representatives to be reversed, ... I'm not proposing that be done, but it could very easily happen... The Chinese government ought to make a clear decision-- Do they want to move forward or do they want these obstacles that put their relationships with other countries, including the United States, in jeopardy.

They will also look to the long term, over the horizon, to the future of U.S. and Chinese relations and what we hope that the relationship will look like.

Bob Hawke

There's a general consensus from this conference that China and its growth is not a threat but a tremendous opportunity.

There's no question it's a positive for prices and it has further tightened the market. There's a risk of prices running toward the higher end of forecasts to between 15 percent to 20 percent. We've seen spot prices in China rising.

There's more to Intel than notebooks. China and India are seeing stronger-than-normal demand for desktops," ()

The traditional superstition has put on the cloak of modern high technology, poisoning an increasing number of Chinese kids and youth.

Andreas Schleicher

The time when Europe competed mostly with countries that offered low-skilled work at low wages has gone. Today, countries like China and India are starting to deliver high skills at low costs.