Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Kelly

Keating understood the power of tradition yet he loved to break the rules and create a new orthodoxy. That's what he did as treasurer saying, in effect, that Labor runs a market model with equity, and it worked. When he became PM, he tried to construct a new set of Labor beliefs based on Asian engagement, reconciliation and the republic. For Keating, these weren't just policies; they were the new Labor template handed down from the mount. The trouble, of course, was his inability to convert a lot of the public.

Samuel Huntington

I think it makes sense to try to contain China and limit the expansion of Chinese influence in other Asian countries.

Gong Li

I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood director came to me with a script and wanted me to play a character, and she was a stereotypical Asian woman who gets into a fight and gets killed off quickly, that didn't seem to have much interest for me.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.

Steven Yeun

I believe that we are still hovering around the realm of Asians playing all types of Asians. I do not see that changing any time soon just because there is a limited pool of Asian actors.

Colleen Hanabusa

Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Andy Lau

He said if the stars can work together, we won't lose to any Asian movies or even foreign films,

Zhang Qiyue

It hurts the feelings of the Chinese people and other Asian countries. We urge the Japanese government to treat seriously the issue with the correct attitude.

O. Singh

I think the HSBC Champions is going to be a really exciting fixture on our golfing calendar and with a prize fund of US$5 million, the largest in the history of Asian and Chinese golf, it is an event we all want to win.

Tim Mooney

Kids in China and India are getting a better education.

Dave Carini

I wouldn't rule out commercial uses either, though China Mobile is unlikely to recklessly sell sensitive information on its high-end customers, given how much effort it expends to keep them happy.

William Daley

I think it is important that China be in the WTO. But they must come in a commercially-meaningful way. And that means that their market has to be open for U.S. products to be sold into.? They should live by the rules the rest of the world lives by.

Hollis Zhao

Harley-Davidson has succeeded for 100 years. We hope China will continue that trend for another 100 years.

Najib Razak

I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors.

Promod Haque

What we don't want is to have someone dedicated to solely doing a deal in China or India or wherever, and then they're all by themselves.

Ken Bacon

He remains, of course, steadfastly committed to engagement with China as a long-term policy.

Li Jian

Hitler used the Olympics to show his people that his government had legitimacy. The Chinese government wants a similar result: that countries recognize that China is a great and powerful country.

Tim Adams

I think it's important for us to get a better sense of China overall,

George Beranek

It also helps that Chinese contractors tend to do the work on their projects.

Hu Jia

I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is by placing dissidents under house arrest.

Bill Gates

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement...access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Jim Campbell

To get any volume for the Chinese it will take a couple of years to ramp up.

Marvin Harris

I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.

Mark White

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

Robert Fortune

I have, however, often seen Chinese gardeners selecting suckers and plants for this purpose from the other plants which are growing in their garden.

Scott Fraser

He knew something about everything. He was a walking encyclopedia. You couldn't play him in Trivial Pursuit. You could only try to contain him. He had not only read about everything, he had been there.

Grant Heslov

When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.

Sophie Hannah

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

Ike Nwaelele

He's a good player so I just tried to get a hand up and contain him and not let him get to the lane.

Rasoul Wilson

He's a great quarterback, and we can't stop him. We were out to contain him.

Kevin Davis

He's a great player. He can be in the mid-20s and you think you've done a great job on him. He's just so smooth around the basket. I thought we had enough guys come through on the back side and give him enough trouble all night that eventually it wears on him. You're not going to stop him. You just hope you can contain him.

Kyler Hall

He's definitely a talent. He's an exciting player. If you don't contain him, he can definitely hurt you.

Sammy Knight

He's going to make some plays. That's Randy Moss. Hopefully we can contain him and we did that at the end.

Chad Brown

He's a special player. He can do things no other player can. I've actually had him come around on a reverse on me. My job is to contain him and it was a little frightening.

Kelvin Stokes

Katy is an expansion team, but they look tough. We've got to go in and be physical. If we go in and start slow, it could be a long night.

Haim Saban

guide the ongoing strategic expansion of this company, which will have a unique position in Europe.

Jim Boeheim

I think we should expand. I think we're ready for this. The game needs an expansion of the tournament.

Milt Stegall

We may need Birmingham, an expansion team from the U.S., to come help. That's how much help we need right now. It's going to be difficult.

Paul Tagliabue

I guess the sense I have, if we ever get around to considering expansion within the NFL, that San Antonio would be on anyone's short list.

Wade Duty

I'm not sure this is the right tool for the situation. If you're not supporting the industry that you have, why would you think the state would support an expansion of that industry?

Troy Dayak

I'm happy with his overall performance. On an expansion team it's very valuable to have his kind of experience.

David Gilmore

The message from Fed officials is clear: You don't take a record expansion and shut it off with two months of data. There is no risk of a hard landing.

Gary Murphy

These funds will help with the expansion of our facilities so that we can better serve the rice growers in the area.

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

William Wordsworth

Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

Robert Teeter

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

Samuel Johnson

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Walt Disney

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

Saul Bellow

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Vladimir Putin

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

Jim Johnson

It all starts with No. 7. He's a special quarterback. He's going to make plays. We have to limit those.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Here at the quiet limit of the world,/ A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream/ The ever-silent spaces of the East.

Bob Thomason

He's a role player on our team, but I think sometimes he limits his role more than he should.

Jim Silver

His return is a big positive for the industry. It will spur everyone on, especially in terms of pushing the limits of technology,

Joe Harsel

Historically, this sort of retirement living has been limited to the wealthiest in a community. The way that we do it makes it within the reach of that retired schoolteacher.

Mike Urban

We tightened up the passing lanes to try and limit their chances. We wanted to neutralize their athleticism.

Gene Sartini

We thought with their speed that they'd get yards on the ground, we just wanted to limit them through the air.

Jim Johnson

He's a very special quarterback. He's a big-play guy, and we want to make sure we limit those big plays.

Mike Schaefer

We made some adjustments in the second quarter to slow the pace a little bit. We tightened up defensively and tried to limit them to one shot.