Asian Quotes - Page 10

• Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

  Jeremy Lin

  College, Stereotype, Coming Out

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• The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Loyalty, Thinking, Nwo

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• When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or any Asian country, they can turn a television into a watch. They're very creative. And you look at the Indians, they have been very gifted in the spirituality.

  Reggie White

  Country, Creativity, Japan

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• I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.

  Dat Phan

  Funny, School, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

  Eric Liu

  Numbers, Minorities, Poverty

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• America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  White, America, Black

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• You believe that all humanity came from Adam and Eve, and humans have not evolved at all since. So tell me; between the two of them, which was black, which was white, and which was Asian?

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Two, White

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• I hope that at this moment you are thinking of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European, African, or member of any particular country. These loyalties are secondary.

  Dalai Lama

  Loyalty, Country, Thinking Of You

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2011). “How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found in the expression Buddha Dharma, and dharma as 'reality-as-is' (abhigama-dharma). The teaching is a verbal expression of reality-as-is that consists of two aspects-the subject that realizes and the object that is realized. Together they constitute 'reality-as-is;' if either aspect is lacking, it is not reality-as-is. This sense of dharma or reality-as-is is also called suchness (tathata) or thatness (tattva) in Buddhism.

  Taitetsu Unno

  Teaching, Buddhism, Reality

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• All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Wise, War, Past

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• In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.

  Lin Biao

  Latin, Struggle, People

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• If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor. We knew we had to present a range of characters within each ethnic group, which means that we couldn't do just one book. We had to do a series of books and we had to present a view of the world that's wider than the world we've seen before.

  Dwayne McDuffie

  Sex, Block, Book

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• I will never forget my ASIAN fans, because they're so welcome with me, its my best moment ever

  Greyson Chance

  Fans, Welcome, Never Forget

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• My heritage is something that I have always been aware of, however, some would say that there is a disproportionately low number of Asians as professional athletes. I take pride in trying my best to be a role model to show young Asian American boys and girls that they are only limited by the size of their dreams.

  Nathan Adrian

  Girl, Dream, Athlete

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• There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.

  Nathan Adrian

  Sports, Athletics, Pacific

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• We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.

  Li Peng

  Country, Development, Common

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• There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their part, many Chinese secretly believe that they care more about their children and are willing to sacrifice much more for them than Westerners, who seem perfectly content to let their children turn out badly. I think it's a misunderstanding on both sides. All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

  Amy Chua

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "But Will It All Make 'Tiger Mom' Happy?" by Janet Maslin, www.nytimes.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Country, Past, Japan

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• To me, personally, it doesn't matter what color I am. Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, it doesn't matter to me as long as the message I'm portraying to people that watch me on TV is positive and it shows that they can do things that are different besides catching a football, hitting a baseball or shooting a basketball. I'm just showing them that stepping outside the bubble is OK and they can be successful at it.

  Shani Davis

  Basketball, Football, Baseball

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• Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
  with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wind, Oil, Sound

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.338, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.

  Coolio

  Food, Cooking, Meat

  Coolio (2009). “Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• That Asian guy is really good at kicking. Shocking. Someone is pressing 'A' really fast somewhere.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Guy, Kicking

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• I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'

  Jo Koy

  Orange, Compliment, Chickens

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• We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

  Arto Lindsay

  People, Elements, Abstract

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• There are no Asian movie stars

  Aaron Sorkin

  Stars, Movie Star

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