Asia Quotes - Page 9

• Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Latin, Russia

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• There's never been a real destination resort in Asia, and when we open the Venetian Macao, it will be the first.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Real, Firsts, Destination

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• Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Wings, America

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• A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out. Everyone rushed after it, shouting "Stop! Stop! Why did you do that?" "Becuase I am a panda," said the panda. "That's what pandas do. If you don't believe me, look in the dictionary." So they looked in the dictionary and sure enough they found Panda: Racoon-like animal of Asia. Eats shoots and leaves.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Believe, Men, Animal

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• If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere.

  Jack Welch

  Europe, Germany, Ifs

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.

  Roma Tearne

  Moving, Order, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Middle East, World, Balkans

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa reflected the preferences of the colonial powers when they were established.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Patterns, Preference, States

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

  Vijay Singh

  People, Poverty, Culture

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• I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Ocean, Europe, America

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.165, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.

  Linda Grant

  War, Sacrifice, Honor

  Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books

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• Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Race, Yellow

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.43, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Mustache, East, Green

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• We`re talking about bilateral agreements with other countries in Asia, so that we can expand our influence and get countries to play by our set of rules. That`s to me is something that`s really important.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Agreement, Talking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.

  Pharrell Williams

  New York, Japan, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You have a lot of suspicion from the neighbors of Afghanistan about U.S. intentions. Iran is already, to some extent, trying to undermine the U.S. in Afghanistan. Russia is now becoming increasingly nervous about a more permanent U.S. presence in Central Asia. And China is not keen that the U.S. should be so close to its borders over a long period of time. Certainly, if the U.S. is going to be there for a long time, it's going to exacerbate regional tensions.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Russia, Iran, Long

  Source: progressive.org

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• We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Europe, League, World

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• There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Freedom, Wind, World

  1934 Speech, Dec.

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• You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Leadership, Jobs, Latin

  "Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. August 10, 2014.

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• What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

  Jack Welch

  People, India, Mature

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.

  Dario Argento

  Daughter, Thinking, Supportive

  "Dario Argento, Master of Horror, Unleashes Dracula 3-D Trailer" by Xaque Gruber, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• Since Russia has the largest number of illegal immigrants, second only to the US, and immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs, I'm calling for a visa requirement for all those wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

  Alexei Navalny

  Russia, Uzbekistan, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Impact, Europe, Influence

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• I would rather say that I have to be not from Los Angeles but from America. When I go to Europe or Asia, I find myself disoriented. I'm not so inspired by their culture as much. It's not going to really come out in my work. I would be more influenced by what somebody from America does - like a sign painter from Pennsylvania.

  Edward Ruscha

  Europe, America, Pennsylvania

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because of the way the press plays it, he will say terrorism is his biggest fear. But for somebody living on a small island state, then it is climate change, the rise of the sea level, for his whole island may be washed away. If I go to southern Africa, they tell me it is HIV/AIDS and somewhere in Asia it is poverty. This is also why you will find it difficult to find agreements, because if you want someone to be concerned about your threat, then you should be concerned about his.

  Kofi Annan

  Agreement, Sea, Play

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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