#chinese

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese. ↗

— John McGahern

#anything #being #chinese #else #i

You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#feel #help #you

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#chinese #fourth #investment #korea #perspective

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me. ↗

— Li Na

#chinese #chinese people #forget #i #maybe

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.' ↗

— Li Na

#chinese #first #grand #grand slam #i

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life. ↗

— John Pomfret

#american life #bosnian #chinese #experience #korean

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#chins #directory #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #more

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#being #believe #chinese #chinese people #controlled

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear. ↗

— Ma Jian

#chinese #chinese people #could #crushed #fear