Asia Quotes - Page 2

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Army, Blue

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.16, Fordham Univ Press

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• I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

  Andy Lau

  Idols, Hong Kong

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• After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

  Jackie Chan

  Years, People, Promotion

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• The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching.

  Roh Moo-hyun

  Age

  "Roh Moo-Hyun's Inauguration Speech". February 25, 2003.

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• There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs

  Lawrence Summers

  Jobs, Children, Would Be

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• I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Nba, People

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• Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Men, White Man

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 14, 2012

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• When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you.

  Kerri Kasem

  Mtv, Trying, Want

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• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Islands, Race

  The Souls of Black Folk ch. 2 (1903)

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• Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

  Li Keqiang

  Past, Growth, Development

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• When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.

  Maggie Q

  Tvs, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

  Muhtar Kent

  Children, Parent, World

  "Soft (Drink) Power". Interview with Ian Bremmer, foreignpolicy.com. April 29, 2013.

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• If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

  Hillary Clinton

  Beautiful, Fighting, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

  Mickey Rourke

  Jobs, Tired, Fighting

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• Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Military, Government, Broads

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Thinking, America, Years

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• Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, People, Three

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• The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve global challenges, including environmental challenges. Hence, this multi-disciplinary programme from NUS could not be more timely. It meets a pressing need to educate, train and empower leading players in the public, private and civil society sectors in Singapore, Asia and the world.

  Kishore Mahbubani

  Mean, Player, Empowering

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• Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Easter, Kingdoms, South

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• Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Unification, Stability, One Thing

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• We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.

  John T. Flynn

  Europe, Decision, United States

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• Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Agriculture, India

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• I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.

  Francois Gautier

  Writing, Europe, Different

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• Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Europe, Lasts, Growing

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• The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

  Josiah Strong

  Mean, Europe, Race

  Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”

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