Words matter. These are the best Kong Quotes from famous people such as P. J. O’Rourke, Erin O’Toole, Morgan Ortagus, Henry Golding, Mark Hunt, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I’ve never gone club-hopping. I’ve never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand have stood together in the long struggle for freedom for decades. We have a responsibility to the people of Hong Kong to support them as they struggle to maintain the freedom that was guaranteed to them by Beijing in 1984.
The continued erosion of the one country, two systems framework puts at risk Hong Kong’s long-established special status in international affairs.
I was raised on Hong Kong movies with Asian stars, so I’m still learning about Hollywood underrepresenting certain people.
They can be King Kong, Godzilla, or whatever – I don’t care what they have. Once you get a punch in the face or a knee in the head, all of those skills are gone.
Self-determination means the political and economic status of Hong Kong should be freely determined by the Hong Kong people.
If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It’s no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.
We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.
I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I’ve also lived in Hong Kong and America.
Any effort to impose national security legislation that does not reflect the will of the people of Hong Kong would be highly destabilizing and would be met with strong condemnation from the United States and the international community.
Kagoshima is the first step in our plan to develop increased scheduled air links between Hong Kong and Japan, especially the southern islands of Kyushu and Okinawa.
In London, the food critics are harsher, the clients milder; in Hong Kong, the clients are harsher, the critics milder.
I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway – that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.
Hong Kong people may be ethnically Chinese, but lots of people do not consider ourselves, including me, as Chinese citizens.
When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.
When I look at ‘Fallen Angels,’ I realize it is not a film that is truly about Hong Kong. It’s more like my Hong Kong fantasy. I want Hong Kong to be quiet, with less people.
Rest in peace, King Kong Bundy.
The SCMP, in short, reveals the renewed spirit of Hong Kong driven by my government – connect and excel – and in its passionate commitment to the community.
I’ve been to McDonald’s in Spain, Greece, Turkey, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Scotland, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada and Singapore. Despite that, I’m still without a fast food endorsement, which hurts a bit because you’re not really somebody unless someone is paying for your McDonald’s.
People may recognize me as some sort of superhero, but it’s different. Spider-Man and all these other superheroes, they get superpowers and do what they want to save the city. If we need to save Hong Kong, we can’t rely on superpowers, we can just rely on the people.
While I was writing ‘Stick Out Your Tongue’ in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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.
Hong Kong movies were really popular in my generation.
I grew up mainly in the Far East, where my father worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which was then a small, well-run colonial institution and not the global colossus it is today.
For the world’s four Chinese-speaking regions – Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China – the longer the colonization, the more advanced a place is.
Hong Kong is the city with the highest degree of freedom of all the Chinese territories.
I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.
I dress pop stars, and I dress my doctor. It’s about attitude. I do what I love, and I’m lucky to do it. It’s a long way from Hong Kong.
The Olympic medal gave me a lot of confidence, and I went and won my first Super Series in Hong Kong. So in that regards, what Rio did was give me extra motivation and the confidence that now anything can happen.
The original communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of family linkages, and corruption, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore.
American diplomats meet with formal government officials, we meet with opposition protesters, not just in Hong Kong or China. This literally happens in every single country in which an American embassy is present.
I am a pro-democracy activist asking for free elections in Hong Kong.
I do not lead the Hong Kong protests, because no one person leads the protests.
Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.
Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating ‘people power’ with instability.
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.
Hong Kong never had prestige. It’s gone from fishing village to where it is today.
When Hong Kong was under British administration, governors were dispatched from London to govern this city. We had no say in the matter.
I love the sense of belonging in Hong Kong. I love that it is such an international city. I love our food and our language. The people are energetic and passionate. I just really love this city.
If I can find time to play games, it’s console gaming. I don’t want to be plugged into my phone all the time. I’m waiting for the new Mario Kart to come out, but I’ve been playing Donkey Kong and Mario 3D World on the Wii U.
One overseas diner told me that he was not going to come back to Hong Kong, but after visiting my restaurant he saw that there was more to our city than he originally thought, and he would therefore be back. That made me proud.
We shall continue our fight for democracy and freedom because we do not accept that Hong Kong will be transformed into a police state.
I’ve played 8-ball in Hong Kong and I’m more knowledgeable with that than 9-ball.
It is amazing that you now have a bus company in Ballymena producing world class buses for Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Las Vegas.
I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn’t matter where something is made, we’re all part of the same big family now.
Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong’s uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures… China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
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.
New York City is the financial capital of the world. The Dodd-Frank Act, I think, is going to change that. It’s going to send jobs to London and Geneva and Hong Kong and Sydney instead of keeping New York the financial center of the world.
I think it will be quite the spectacle to have Awesome Kong and Beth Phoenix in the same ring at the same time.
In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with – by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.
I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that’s probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It’s India that I consider home.
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.
While the fashion in Paris is very chic and classy, the fashion in Hong Kong is very hip, young and colorful.
Hong Kong is a wonderful city.
I came to Hong Kong when I was five, but we didn’t have any relatives in Hong Kong. My mom is a big movie fan, and she watched all kinds of movies, so when I was a kid, basically, we went to watch a movie every day.