Asian Quotes - Page 10

• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  B. D. Wong

  Children, School, Kids

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• It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem strange or unusual - in the same way that Christianity and Judaism may seem strange and unusual to people from the Far East.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Teaching, Buddhism

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• I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, Atheist, White

  "The Transcendence Of Hip Hop - An Interview With Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

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• There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down South, and so on with Asian, Latino, Indian, midgets, etc. The previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh.

  Chris Rock

  Gay, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.

  Ming-Na Wen

  Chinese, Hollywood, Actors

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• The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.

  Ming-Na Wen

  Roles, Agents, Shows

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• I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Air, Land

  Pearl S. Buck (1954). “My Several Worlds”

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• I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ... vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other 'exotic' ways of understanding.

  Adrienne Rich

  White, People, Understanding

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Disappointment, Struggle, Views

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• When these Asians go out looking for a victim, they don't go looking for Asian victims. They don't go mugging Asian grandmas, they don't go stabbing each other, they don't go trying to solicit sex off little Pritesh or little Sanjita, they go straight to the whites because they are trying to destroy us and they are the racists.

  Mark Collett

  Sex, Grandma, Trying

  "Retrial begins of BNP leaders accused of stirring racial hatred" by Martin Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

  Brenda Song

  Math, Jokes

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• My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Heart, Careers, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.

  Riz Ahmed

  Lying, Games, Drug

  "Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

  Bai Ling

  Two, Directors

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2006.

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• People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.

  David Chang

  Thinking, Food Culture, Japan

  "David Chang's Pork Buns: An Unexpected Hit". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. November 3, 2009.

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• No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Offering, Perfect, Culture

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• Hawaiis own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

  Colleen Hanabusa

  Party, Color, House

  "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  America, Self, Challenges

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

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• Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this communitys many contributions and to celebrate its bright future.

  Nydia Velazquez

  Opportunity, Heritage, Months

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• I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

  David Henry Hwang

  Growing Up, Character, Racism

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• Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Different, Culture

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

  Alain Ducasse

  Wine, Program, Airline

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• I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.

  Brett Ratner

  Fashion, School, Kids

  "Brett Ratner Interview - RUSH HOUR 3". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. August 07, 2007.

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• I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

  Jason Wu

  Art, Growing Up, Race

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• Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

  Chris Lilley

  Australia, Dresses, Fine

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

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