Asian Quotes - Page 14

• The majority of my blood is Asian.

  Tiger Woods

  Blood, Majority

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• Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

  Yelawolf

  Struggle, Get Up, Relate

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• Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

  Lisa Ling

  Taught, Culture, Talkers

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

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• I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

  John Green

  Kids, Thinking, Genius

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.85, Penguin

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• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  Ted Allen

  Cooking, Noodles, Cooks

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

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• It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

  Maya Angelou

  Men, White Man, Black

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Thinking, Two

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• China's productive system draws upon the other East Asian countries to a great extent. The volume of trade is much larger than the net amount being exported from China. China needs substantial reserves to finance all that.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, East, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When Asian people grow up fast they go to college at 13. White people grow up fast it's about fudge packing and triple D's at 13.

  Adam Carolla

  Funny, Growing Up, Humor

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• I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's up, whitebread?" And I was like, "That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!"

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Race

  "Comedy Central Presents / Mike Birbiglia: 2". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Past, Issues

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• Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.

  Berti Vogts

  Team, Mean, Successful

  Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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• One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Character, White, Racism

  "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.

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• In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wise, Kindness, Heart

  "Q&A: Jon Kabat-Zinn Talks About Bringing Mindfulness Meditation to Medicine". Interview with Maia Szalavitz, healthland.time.com. January 11, 2012.

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• Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Mind, Black

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• I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

  Jackie Chan

  Film, Audience, American Film

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• I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

  Jackie Chan

  Want, De Niro

  "Jackie Chan Retiring From Action Movies: Upcoming Film, 'Chinese Zodiac 2012,' Will Be His Last", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  Iris Chang

  Barbie

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• All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

  Joan Chen

  Jobs, Children, Parent

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

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• For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

  Joan Chen

  Girl, Past, Thinking

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

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• To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

  Amy Chua

  Parent, Honest, Aspect

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• When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

  Amy Chua

  Mother, Fashion, School

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• Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Hard Work, Parent

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• Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, … but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that’s usually working in Asian food.

  Tom Colicchio

  Sweet, Two, Doe

  "Q&A with Tom Colicchio". Interview with Victorino Matus, www.weeklystandard.com. March 8, 2012.

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• The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, White, Black

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