Vietnamese Quotes

I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That`s the kind of customers we need!

(The Pillow Book) The film has written and spoken dialogue in twenty-five languages - English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Latin, Hebrew, necrotic Egyptian ... and it has written calligraphic text on paper, wood, and flesh, on flat and curved surfaces, vertically and horizontally, on both living and dead flesh, in neon, on screens, in projection, as sub-title, inter-title, and sur-title, as High Art and low art, as advertisement and banker`s check and registration plate, on photograph, on blackboard, as letter correspondence, as photocopy facsimile, and spoken, chanted, and sung, with and without music ... a mocking challenge. You want text? Cinema wants text? Cinema pretends to eschew text? Then we can give you text to mock that smug suggestion that cinema thinks it is pictures.

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They`re icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

We have blacks and whites, Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croats, and Filipinos and Vietnamese here. At the end of the day, everyone is each other`s brother.

You remember all those phrases about how "these people" - Asians - don`t value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don`t want to do that and that`s their decision.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the entire Vietnamese War in the crowds here.

I believe that the two sides will continue to discuss that matter, but I would like to tell you that the sacrifices that the Vietnamese people had to suffer are much greater than what America suffered,

The population of Vietnam is 83 million. We have 1.3 million Vietnamese living in America. I don`t know who this gentleman would represent.

This event in itself shows that Vietnamese-U.S. relations have in fact entered a new stage of development,

He expressed his strong support of Vietnam`s accession to the WTO. I think that is because it`s in both the U.S. and Vietnamese interests, and it is in the interest of the American business community,

I`ve seen major changes in Vietnam, however there are still problems and difficulties that need to be overcome, ... Looking back on what we have done over the past 60 years, we are proud to be Vietnamese.

I defended him (John McCain) in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of crap I`ve ever heard in my life, coming from some chicken hawk out there, to hurl at somebody who spent as long as he did being tortured and standing up for his country, and caring about it as much as he did. It`s incredible that people would behave like that, absolutely stunning.