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  • In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway. -- Martin Scorsese
  • Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth. -- Prince Charles
  • I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974. -- Jet Li
  • If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. -- Jackie Chan
  • I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star. -- Anna May Wong
  • We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting. -- Jaime King
  • When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there. -- Paul Theroux
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  • Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be. -- Wong Kar-wai
  • You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole. -- Michelle Yeoh
  • 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
  • I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent. -- James Chanos
  • I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it. -- Kyle Chandler
  • My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know. -- Wong Kar-wai
  • The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined. -- Evelyn Glennie
  • Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia. -- Eleanor Coppola
  • In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men. -- Andrew Lau
  • Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture. -- Jet Li
  • I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia. -- Andy Lau
  • Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping. -- Hanya Yanagihara
  • Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. -- Ha Jin
  • When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family. -- Jet Li
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  • The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology. -- Dian Fossey
  • A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue. -- Tom Robinson
  • My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate. -- Edward Snowden
  • Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end. -- Chris Patten
  • There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic. -- Andy Lau
  • The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
  • Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie. -- Robert Mark Kamen
  • There's a McDonalds in Hong Kong & they're offering couples the opportunity to get married. You can have a McWedding. -- Chelsea Handler
  • Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
  • When I hit the bong I'm Godzilla takin' over Hong Kong Eatin' wonton with a shotgun in long johns. -- Redman
  • The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk. -- Peter Jackson
  • There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above. -- Fay Wray
  • It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us. -- Mason Cooley
  • Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts. -- Trevor Manuel
  • At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant. -- Martin Yan
  • I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong. -- Petra Haden
  • Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues. -- Jess Row
  • It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls. -- Robert Orben
  • You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks. -- L. Ron Hubbard
  • I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved about 'King Kong.' -- Petra Haden
  • What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong, -- Gordon Brown
  • If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey. -- Lyle Alzado
  • I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting. -- Jackie Chan
  • It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores. -- Will Forte
  • Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong. -- Li Ka-shing
  • Buddhists and Taoists of the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan share the same roots and instructions and have always maintained sound exchanges. -- Jia Qinglin
  • Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
  • People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place. -- David Beckham
  • Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech. -- Edward Snowden
  • The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do. -- Paul Theroux
  • I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia. -- Ming-Na Wen
  • If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint. -- Ian Mckellen
  • I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit. -- Andy Lau
  • At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series. -- Victor Koo
  • He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog. -- Jim Croce
  • No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. -- Peter Jackson
  • In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors. -- Raymond Kwok
  • Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you're King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law. -- Wu Bangguo
  • Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks. -- Camilla Belle
  • Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera. -- Jim Rohn
  • Pokémon was made with Miyamoto-san's advice. Since I was a teenager, playing Donkey Kong, he's always been my role model. He's a mentor for my heart. -- Satoshi Tajiri
  • I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home. -- Stewart Butterfield
  • That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions. -- Chow Yun-Fat
  • I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100. -- Michael Rosenbaum
  • Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable, ... ... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia. -- Chris Patten
  • That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions -- Chow Yun-Fat
  • Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics. -- Evan Osnos
  • Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights. -- Joshua Wong
  • I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with. -- Peter Jackson
  • People are very surprised when they come to Hong Kong after seeing my films, because my version of it is quite different than Hong Kong in reality. -- Wong Kar-wai
  • Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo. -- Paul Oakenfold
  • It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them. -- Srikumar Rao
  • Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests. -- Pankaj Mishra
  • The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off... and the standard of living has multiplied. -- John Templeton
  • In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century, -- Paul Romer
  • I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops. -- Wong Kar-wai
  • One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong. -- Nicolas Cage
  • Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later. -- Richard Dooling
  • There's a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane. -- Ray Harryhausen
  • Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul. -- Zhu Rongji
  • There's something incredibly tragic about Kong. You feel almost feel ashamed to be a human being when you see what happens to him. I mean he is ultimately a pure-heart. -- Peter Jackson
  • Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul -- Zhu Rongji
  • 'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West. -- John Woo
  • Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. -- Vita Sackville-West
  • Some marriages are made in heaven,Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart. -- Tom Robbins
  • When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
  • Whether I'm in London, Sydney or Hong Kong, it makes no difference. There is always someone who knows me. I must be one of the most unloneliest people in the world! -- Roy Orbison
  • Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West. -- John Woo
  • Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style. -- Desmond Dekker
  • Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. -- Eric Allin Cornell
  • I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law. -- Edward Snowden
  • Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong. -- Vita Sackville-West
  • I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was pissed off, even when I was initially in Hong Kong. -- Edward Snowden
  • In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge. -- David Haye
  • I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here. -- Adelaide Clemens
  • The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united. -- Martin Yan
  • Anybody who doesn't think that Hong Kong has to depend on the PRC (China) must be the biggest idiot on earth because you are talking about getting access to a 1.3 billion people market. -- Gordon Wu
  • Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size. -- Fay Wray
  • The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians. -- Joel Garreau
  • I was a regular on 'Holby City,' and I did daytime; that's how I started off. Off in Hong Kong doing stuntman stuff, then coming back to England doing daytime soap operas. -- Scott Adkins
  • We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories. -- Richard Li
  • I still remember 2002. It's a very hard time for Hong Kong industry, no movies in Hong Kong, and also at this moment I start my new company, so many people said, 'You're crazy.' -- Andrew Lau
  • I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.' -- Adelaide Clemens
  • CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity. -- Roger Ebert
  • People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing. -- Peter Jackson
  • Hong Kong and Macau are both very dynamic cities. I am always inspired about the culture, people and food in these two cities. There is always so much to do and so much to explore! -- David Beckham
  • What I love about films is that you can see "King Kong" and you can be affected by it and then you realize that he was just this little guy when he made that fall. -- Peter Jackson
  • Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who gains popularity by damaging the United States, while the other guy runs China. -- Argus Hamilton
  • If I don't commit to fighting for the future, 20 years later, 30 years later, after the end of the expiration date of the joint declaration, Hong Kong will be more at risk and in greater danger. -- Joshua Wong
  • The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China. -- Chen Shui-bian
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