Asian Quotes - Page 16

• Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.

  Takashi Murakami

  Teacher, Thinking, Culture

  Interview with Alison Gingeras, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.

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• Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.

  Kristen Stewart

  Brother, Different, Pushing Boundaries

  Interview with Jon Favreau, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2009.

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• I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.

  Russell Simmons

  Believe, Men, Speak English

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

  Eric Stoltz

  Depressing, Real, War

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• I look in the eyes and I see the heart. As long as it's a human story. I would like to turn on my television and see African American, Hispanic, Asian as well as Caucasian. And I think there are probably more people like me.

  Angela Bassett

  Heart, Eye, Thinking

  "'The Rosa Parks Story': Angela Bassett Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• The next Republican that will win will campaign in the Latino community, will campaign amongst Asian-Americans, will campaign in the black churches, will campaign in college campuses.

  Jeb Bush

  Winning, College, Community

  "Jeb Bush calls for U.S. Embassy to move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem" By Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2015.

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• You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.

  Jeremy Lin

  Basketball, Player, Basketball Player

  "Asian Americans remain rare in men's college basketball" by Bryan Chu, www.sfgate.com. December 16, 2008.

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• The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

  Paul Achleitner

  Would Be, Body, American Universities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Asian girls are so natural and beautiful. I guess they don't like to wear make up

  Greyson Chance

  Beautiful, Girl, Natural

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• We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.

  Ichiro Ozawa

  Needs, Diplomacy

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• I really, really love China. To be honest, the food is so amazing! When I first went to Beijing and Shanghai, I actually became obsessed with soup dumplings, and would stand in lines and get them on the street. It was something that I became obsessed with and when I came back to the States, I did all this research for the best soup dumplings in the Los Angeles area and in the New York area and it was amazing to find those Asian dishes that were authentic and I can enjoy them at home.

  Tyra Banks

  New York, Home, Research

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• In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our Asian friends resist that ambition. Sometimes our folks get a little impatient. Sometimes they rattle their rockets some, and they bluff about their bombs. But we are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Ambition, Boys

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

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• Sometimes I feel embarrassed because I'll tell the kids if someone is driving really slow or cutting in, I'll say "Bloody Asian drivers." But I feel justified in saying it because I'm Asian.

  Pearl Tan

  Kids, Cutting, Driving

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.

  Margaret Cho

  Space, People, Goal

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

  Brice Marden

  Art, Practice, Chinese

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• When I do an Asian character or an Asian voice I'm doing one because that's my heritage and my family and where I come from. My family is of Korean descent and specifically North Korean descent. So it makes sense for me to talk about that issue because it's the only weapon I have to somehow avenge my family and my history.

  Margaret Cho

  Character, Issues, Voice

  "Margaret Cho Has Gone 'PsyCHO': Talking Donald Trump, Surviving Rape & More". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2015.

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• You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"

  Arthur Dong

  White, Invisible

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'"

  Len Wiseman

  Stars, War, Drawing

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

  Brice Marden

  Artist, Trying, Portraits

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My favorite thing is landscaping. I love landscaping. And so what I'll do is, mostly I put language into search engines, and if I want to look, like, at tulip gardens, or, like, Georgian gardens, i love English gardens, how they're laid out. Japanese gardens, Asian gardens. So, I'm kind of a frustrated landscaper.

  Michele Bachmann

  Love, Garden, Frustrated

  "Michele Bachmann's not so quiet exit" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2014.

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• I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

  Harold Washington

  Latin, White, Black

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• Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

  Pitbull

  White, America, Black

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• Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more likely to die during the South Asian tsunami. In some villages it was 3 to 1. And that was party because of the average strength it takes to hold onto something. Also it was cultural; women were less likely to know how to swim, as were children. So much of this is based on how we develop our own survival skills before something goes wrong: Even if nothing goes wrong, it might be good to know how to swim.

  Amanda Ripley

  Children, Party, Average

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

  Eddie Huang

  White, People

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• Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else.

  Paul Goldberger

  Thinking, Dubai, Cities

  "Ask the Author Live: Paul Goldberger on the World Trade Center". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2011.

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