Asian Quotes - Page 15

• In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

  Bill Gates

  Math, Years, Class

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• Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Kids, Law

  "Henry Louis Gates Uncovers 'Faces Of America'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. February 17, 2010.

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• I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Play, Culture, Horror

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• While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

  Daniel Goleman

  Mind, Study, Theory

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• Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

  James Iha

  People, Stereotype, Yeah

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• They say that this century is going to be an Asian Century. I am very clear that without embracing the path and ideals shown by Gautam Buddha this century cannot be an Asian century!

  Narendra Modi

  Empowerment, India, Path

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• Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make the industry poorer, it makes the landscape of cinema poorer, in America. The impossibility to get a good release on a really good European, Latin American, Asian movie is a tragedy.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Latin, America, Tragedy

  Source: deadline.com

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• One of the funny things about the racism of the system, when I started 30 years ago, I'm in an area called Koreatown and most of the kids were Asian. And when the kids did well, people said, "Well, of course, they did well. They're Asians." But when we had this huge influx of Latino children from Central America, they said, "Oh, you're gonna have problems now."

  Rafe Esquith

  Children, Kids, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war!

  Michael Jackson

  Christian, War, Italian

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• Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs. I think our Sunday schools should be turned into Black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like Hebrew schools for Jewish people, or my Asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn Chinese or Korean.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Baby, Sex, School

  "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.

  Adrian Tomine

  Character, Trying, Different

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Son, Gay

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really is a mashup. We want evidence of our presence in this world, so you'll see there's an interest in technology, that there are not complex electronics. There's electricity in this world, but computers, circuits don't work.

  Miles Millar

  Technology, Challenges, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, White, People

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• They travel in groups. You never see an Asian by their self.

  Chelsea Handler

  Self, Groups

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• I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

  Joan Chen

  Lakes, Swans, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm half Asian, so people immediately go, "Oh, you do kung fu," like that's what we do. We wake up, we do kung fu, we brush our teeth. It's just assumed that you're not working your ass off to make this believable and make this something great, and we absolutely are.

  Maggie Q

  People, Teeth, Wake Up

  Source: collider.com

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• Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.

  Bo Burnham

  Persons, Ifs

  Song: Haikus Sonnet Shakespeare, Album: Words Words Words, 2010

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• I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.

  Chris Tucker

  Teaching, Half, Ancient

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• Out of nowhere she tells me that Oliver Stone - you know, the director - she's like, 'He has this huge Asian fetish, and I find it totally offensive.' And I'm like, 'Why, Kwan? That sounds awesome.' She's like, 'I'm offended because I'm Asian.' And I was just like, 'Well, I'm sorry, but I didn't even notice that. I thought you were just really tired.

  Amy Schumer

  Sorry, Tired, Sound

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• The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Kids, School, White

  "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

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• I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

  Margaret Cho

  Airports, Eggs, White

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• My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Tired, Age, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.

  Anwar Ibrahim

  Practice, Rights, Champion

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• When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive.

  Doug Stanhope

  Beautiful, Degrading, Sexually

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