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Zhang Ziyi Quotes

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: chinese
Birth: February 9, 1979

Topics

Culture Nothing Special Different

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.

Jeremy Stoppelman

Technology Tradition Rise Stop New

Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.

Matthew Desmond

Relationship People Looking Rich

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage. It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.

Good Community End You Hard Begin

I have high expectations for the people who work for me. I figure that if they work really hard and do a good job on one of my campaigns or in my office, that experience will serve them well later on.

Work Good Experience Job People Me

Going from The Shield to singles competition, it wasn't a really big transition for me. Before we were The Shield, we were all singles wrestlers. And we were wrestling a bunch of guys all the time down in developmental.

Time Competition Me Down Transition

At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

Group Winners Out Final Match Our

A song like 'Tears Dry on Their Own' is really sad, but it's hopeful, too - that was my theme song for the first boy who broke my heart.

Jonathan Van Ness

Heart Sad Tears Song Boy First

When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S. - they're in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Investment banks provide direct access to these buyers.

Government America Investment Europe

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

College Army Long Why Horror Going

Attention is what steers your perceptions; it's what controls your reality. It's the gateway to the mind.

Mind Reality Attention Gateway Your

I have always wondered why the movie industry was so firmly persuaded that the original author could be of no possible help in the case of a remake or any other change in a work.

Preston Sturges

Work Change Help Why Possible Movie

If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last time, give him a decent song. Send him off with something that creates some chills or something.

Time Man Song Political Old Man You

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