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Beijing's Quotes & Sayings

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To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years. — Bradley Wiggins

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do. — Shawn Johnson

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me. — Marcus Brigstocke

Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare. — Ai Weiwei

Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction! — Sha Li

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now. — Edward Snowden

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics. — Rebecca MacKinnon

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings. — Ma Jian

Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism. — Zhou Yongkang

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt. — Francis Wheen

Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows! — Lee Hsien Loong

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing. — Ryan Hall

Most descriptions make Beijing sound overbuilt: not a blade of grass left. — George Vecsey

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally, — Barack Obama

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. — Ma Jian

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council. — Li Zhaoxing

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland. — Ma Jian

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan. — Kohei Uchimura

I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing, but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London. — Vijender Singh

Beijing? Freedom? Oil and water. — Victor Robert Lee

Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing. — David Burge

If we're going to be sneaking into New Beijing Palace while Levana is there, why don't we just assassinate her? — Marissa Meyer

When I see someone from Beijing owning 50 houses in Auckland I don't think that's neo-racist — Winston Peters

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. — Ma Jian

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company. — John Lone

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. — Mira Sorvino

Amazing that Americans can obtain so much mass, approximate stuff of two or three people in Beijing. — Andrew Durbin

Badminton in Beijing is huge - it's one of their top three sports. — Howard Bach

As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China. — Evan Osnos

Beijing's preferred method of control, in Russia as in Africa, has been legal contracts on terms advantageous to itself. — Timothy Snyder

When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air. — Evan Osnos

Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me. — Evan Osnos

Beijing is my favorite city in China. — Andrew Lau

Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay. — Evan Osnos

In 1908, Abdulhamid II established an Islamic university in Beijing, China, to serve China's Hui Muslims. — Firas Alkhateeb

Mao had decided to make the city his new capital, and he had its name changed from Peking to Beijing. — Anchee Min

I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver. — Billy Joe Saunders

I used to see Estee Lauder's ads everywhere in the subways of Beijing, and I thought how wonderful it would be if the model on them was myself! — Liu Wen

In Beijing, we talk about air purifiers the way that teenage boys talk about cars. — Evan Osnos

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized, — Luciano Pavarotti

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley. — Marc Andreesen

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish. — Ma Jian

Just as we take a train to get to Beijing or Manhattan, we take death to reach a star. — David Paul Kirkpatrick