Asian Quotes

• Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

  Alan Dundes

  Children, Grandparent, Asian Culture

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• Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

  Mark Kennedy

  Country, Eight, Engineering

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• A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

  Richard Ernst

  Art, Nepal, Insatiable

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• For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.

  Chad Hugo

  Opportunity, Trying, Flags

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• A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

  Robert Morgan

  Break Through, Watches, Alive

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• Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

  Maya Lin

  Growing Up, Artist, White

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• For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

  Ron Kind

  Gay, America, Long

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• For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

  Donnie Yen

  Country, Men, Years

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• Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness.

  Paz Vega

  Unique, People, Feelings

  "Paz Vega Makes Peace With Shanghai" by Jonathan Landreth, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 14, 2011.

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• But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.

  James Iha

  Who I Am, Looks, Band

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• I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Years, Office

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• And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

  Newt Gingrich

  Native American, Thinking, Color

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Jobs, Boys, Should

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “My Hope For America”

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• Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Mammals, Climate, Variation

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.6, VM eBooks

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• There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

  Utada Hikaru

  Sight, People, Singing

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

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• It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Japan, Europe

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• And its very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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• I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

  Jodie Foster

  Kings, Thinking, Perspective

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• Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

  Denis Diderot

  Country, Europe, Government

  "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

  Lawrence Summers

  Morning, Usa, New Day

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• The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

  Lawrence Summers

  Important, Economic History, Development

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• Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Sarcastic, Athlete

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

  Martha Beck

  Philosophy, Chinese, Exposed

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• Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

  Martin Yan

  Chinese, Culture, World

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• We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Boys, Vietnam

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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