Taiwan famous quotes

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.
-- Ang Lee

#Weather #Years #Taiwan

My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.
-- Ang Lee

#Father #Parent #Taiwan

In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
-- Ang Lee

#Taiwan #Jordan #Streets

Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.
-- Annette Lu

#Fighting #Taiwan #Reason

Taiwan is democratic.
-- Annette Lu

#Taiwan #Democratic

Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
-- Annette Lu

#Democracy #Degrees #Taiwan

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.
-- Chen Shui-bian

#People #Prejudice #Taiwan

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
-- Chen Shui-bian

#Democracy #Prejudice #Taiwan

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.
-- Chen Shui-bian

#Peace #Effort #Taiwan

I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.
-- Chen Shui-bian

#Party #Working Together #Taiwan

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
-- Coco Lee

#Listening #Sound #Taiwan

But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
-- Fred Thompson

#Chinese #Taiwan #Aids

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC
-- Fred Thompson

#Average #Important #Taiwan

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.
-- Hu Jintao

#Taiwan #Separation #China

I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.
-- Jeremy Lin

#People #Taiwan #Needs

We expect the Taiwan authorities publicly to correct the record and unambiguously affirm that the February 27 announcement did not abolish the National Unification Council, did not change the status quo, and that the assurances remain in effect.
-- Joseph Adam Ereli

#Taiwan #Records #Affirmation

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.
-- Jung Chang

#Book #Chinese #Taiwan

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
-- Ma Ying-jeou

#Years #Taiwan #Democratic

It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.
-- Ma Ying-jeou

#Important #Taiwan #Contact

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.
-- Michael K. Simpson

#May #Taiwan #Use

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.
-- Mike Johanns

#Egypt #Lebanon #Taiwan

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.
-- Nick Lampson

#Ties #Understanding #Taiwan

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
-- Nick Lampson

#Democracy #World #Taiwan

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.
-- William C. Kirby

#Political #Definitions #Taiwan

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
-- William C. Kirby

#Political #Sides #Taiwan

Taiwan is a major economy.
-- William C. Kirby

#Taiwan #Economy

I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.
-- Yani Tseng

#Causes #Fans #Taiwan

I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV.
-- Chien-Ming Wang

#Growing Up #Yankees #Taiwan

Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.
-- Sadiq Khan

#Art #Skills #Taiwan

Taiwan's development in the past 20 years in high tech is almost 100 percent related to Silicon Valley.
-- Stan Shih

#Past #Years #Taiwan