“Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the uniforms, and it's an embarrassment and a disgrace. Not as embarrassing as congress constantly borrowing money from the Chinese, but still embarrassing.” ShouldWellsStillsFunnyDealsMembersCongressChineseUniformsOlympicsEmbarrassingDisgraceEmbarrassmentFuriousBorrowingLondon OlympicsBorrowing Money Author:Jay Leno
“You get a series of super-typhoons into Shanghai and millions of people die. Does the population there lose faith in Chinese government? Does China start to fissure? I'd prefer to deal with a rising, dominant China any day.” PeopleDoeGovernmentDiesLosesDealsMillionsSeriesPopulationChinaChineseRisingDominantShanghaiChinese GovernmentTyphoons Author:David Titley
“One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something.” WayYearsDifferentProblemMovingUsedReadingLanguageGivenUnderstandingDealsPhotographyDifficultyImpactSevenChinesePoundsEpicInfluentialDifferent LanguagesFluent Author:Richard Misrach
“Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.” PeopleArtSometimesCoursesDealsShadowPaintChineseSunnySunny Day Author:David Hockney