Asian Quotes - Page 5

• Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

  Henry Rosovsky

  Moving, College, Use

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes," [other things most people feel aversion toward].

  Tao Lin

  Hate, War, Racism

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Kids, Pride

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It's found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area.

  Laura Harrington

  New York, Believe, Islands

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist."

  Adrian Tomine

  Artist, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We will work our hardest to make sure SS501 is an Asian and Worldwide Star .

  Kim Hyun-joong

  Stars, Hardest

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• Kusewera, an organization that fosters orphanages in Africa and the Philippines and encourages through creative play and education. Anything and everything that supports cancer research. East West Players, the oldest and biggest Asian American theater in the U.S.

  Reggie Lee

  Cancer, Player, Organization

  "Reggie Lee from TV’s Grimm: Kindness + Abundance + Infiniteness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• The show definitely has a romantic construct, and that's a genre that I've never had access to, in a significant way. This interesting for me to see, as an Asian guy, just standing back. I just wanted to break my way into a different genre. I was tickled that it was offered to me.

  John Cho

  Interesting, Guy, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Weekend, Different, Standing Out

  "Sanjeev Bhaskar: Goodness, I'm home!". Interview with Tina Jackson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• I would also love to visit the Asian countries soon.

  Matt Lanter

  Country, Asian Countries

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• Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Thinking, African American, Directors

  "INTERVIEW: Streetcar Star Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe Are a Couple of Smart Actors". Interview with Brian Scott Lipton, www.theatermania.com. April 17, 2012.

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• To be honest, at that point, just being so fresh to L.A., I was in the mind-set of just getting work, at all costs. But, if you take a step back from it, it's just such a blessing to be able to play somebody like Glenn. Me being Asian American, it's nice to have something to play that's not so very stereotypical. It's also nice to have somebody that I identify with.

  Steven Yeun

  Nice, Blessing, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is always changing. Believe it or not, at one time Blacks were the favored model minority over Asian Americans.

  Ishmael Reed

  Believe, Enemy, Minorities

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• This is why the terrorists hate us. And it's not the glitter and it's not the pomp and circumstance. We've got black and white, we've got Hispanic and Asian, we got gay, straight, and Guttenberg, all working together for one common goal: to get the mirror ball. And the mirror ball doesn't care what color you are, and it doesn't care how rich your parents are, and it doesn't care what God you pray to. It's an even wooden floor, and may the best man or woman win. And I say God bless Dancing with the Stars, and God bless the USA.

  Adam Carolla

  Stars, Hate, Gay

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• Let's have a moment of silence for all the chubby Asian dudes that are getting 'Gangnam style!' yelled at them by bros around the world.

  Aziz Ansari

  Silence, Style, World

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2012

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• You're gonna check my computer records? Is that important? I don't think the government needs to know how I feel about teen Asian sluts in order to fight terrorism.

  Greg Giraldo

  Fighting, Thinking, Government

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• The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody in the media cheats off The New York Times.

  Bill Maher

  Country, New York, Kids

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• As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is.

  Reggie Lee

  Pilots, Asian American, Seasons

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a very dear daughter-in-law who's Japanese. I don't know what she's going to make of the film, but I say a few disparaging things.

  Jacki Weaver

  Daughter, Running, Law

  Source: collider.com

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• Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Morning, Ocean, Italian

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2007.

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• In American culture you leave home at 18. In the Asian culture, your parents don't really want you to leave home. So my parents just thought I was going to be one of those kids. I was like, "I'm never going to make a living at whatever I do." I just liked pretty things.

  Jason Wu

  Home, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My parents loved me, and I think they realized that I was probably not going to have a normal 9-to-5 job. For the longest time, my dad thought that I was just going to be home until I was, like, 35, which, weirdly, is completely normal in Asian families.

  Jason Wu

  Jobs, Dad, Home

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology" that's laid on us by the powers that be. These include White ethnic intellectuals- people who know their roots- as well as Native American, Asian American, Hispanic and Black intellectuals. These are thirty, forty-year associations with some of the best minds around. Minds that are ignored by the media.

  Ishmael Reed

  Native American, Media, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm spinning records and I look across the restaurant and I see somebody who looks Asian. And I'm like, "Yo, that looks like Yoko Ono." I'm like, oh, I can just meet - that's going to be great. Then I look carefully and I'm like, "That's not Yoko Ono, that's Bruno Mars." And it was Bruno Mars. That just happened recently. I was bugging out. Because that was totally not Yoko Ono at all.

  Talib Kweli

  Looks, Mars, Records

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• As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century - if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. ... We've got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future.

  Barack Obama

  Dysfunction, America, Leader

  "OBAMA: 'We Are Not Going To Get A Deal' Without Raising Tax Rates". Interview with Julianna Goldman, www.businessinsider.com. December 4, 2012.

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