Asian Quotes

• Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

  Alan Dundes

  Children, Grandparent, Asian Culture

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• Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

  Mark Kennedy

  Country, Eight, Engineering

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• A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

  Richard Ernst

  Art, Nepal, Insatiable

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• For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.

  Chad Hugo

  Opportunity, Trying, Flags

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• A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

  Robert Morgan

  Break Through, Watches, Alive

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• Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

  Maya Lin

  Growing Up, Artist, White

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• For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

  Ron Kind

  Gay, America, Long

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• Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness.

  Paz Vega

  Unique, People, Feelings

  "Paz Vega Makes Peace With Shanghai" by Jonathan Landreth, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 14, 2011.

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• For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

  Donnie Yen

  Country, Men, Years

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• But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.

  James Iha

  Who I Am, Looks, Band

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• Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Mammals, Climate, Variation

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.6, VM eBooks

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• I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Years, Office

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• And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

  Newt Gingrich

  Native American, Thinking, Color

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Jobs, Boys, Should

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “My Hope For America”

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• I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

  Jodie Foster

  Kings, Thinking, Perspective

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• There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

  Utada Hikaru

  Sight, People, Singing

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

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• It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Japan, Europe

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• And its very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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• The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

  Walter Lippmann

  Drama, Age, Existence

  "Asia and the West". "New York Herald Tribune" (European edition), (p. 4), September 15, 1965.

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• I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

  Martha Beck

  Philosophy, Chinese, Exposed

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• I wish people wouldn't just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me. You add raceto it, and it became, 'Well, she's too Asian', or, ‘She's too American’. I kind of got pushed out of both categories. It's a very strange place to be. You're not Asian enough and then you're not American enough, so it gets really frustrating.

  Lucy Liu

  Girl, Strange Places, People

  "Lucy Liu: ‘I Wish People Wouldn’t Just See Me As The Asian Girl Who Beats Everyone Up’". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

  Martin Yan

  Chinese, Culture, World

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• So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Country, Giving, Democracy

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• There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Patriotic, White

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Boys, Vietnam

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

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