#chi

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#details #doing #end #letting #lot

I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#admit #chinese #farmers #feel #goal

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#child #guess #i #learn #more

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country. ↗

— Ang Lee

#bad #bad guys #china #communist #country

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li. ↗

— Ang Lee

#america #care #chan #chinese #chinese culture

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making. ↗

— Ang Lee

#american movies #apply #big #chinese #film-making

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures. ↗

— Ang Lee

#arts #book #character #chinese #classic

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#get #hereditary #insanity #you #your

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy. ↗

— Ang Lee

#certain #certain way #chinese #convince #democracy