Asian Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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 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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• The Islamic world doesn't stop in the Arab world or Persia. There is the whole Turkic world, the Central Asian world, South Asian world, Southeast Asian world, and African world.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, World, Persia

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Race, White

  "Margaret Cho: PsyCHO". TV Special, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2015.

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• Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

  Mara Brock Akil

  Thinking, Race, People

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• Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or triflingly, God of War, but I did not have such a gendered muse in mind then.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  War, Mind, Males

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Children, Kindness

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• We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes - the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Apes, Orangutans, Gorillas

  A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2003, p. 22,

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• The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Real, Struggle, Psych

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• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  Gabrielle Union

  Men, Race, White Man

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• Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have been jailed since March. Isn't that great? This is big, yeah. Or as Clinton calls it, another Asian happy ending.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, President, Bills

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• I believe that if you are bringing a child into the world, you should be willing to accept them in any reality. Whether they are Black, White, Asian, have four fingers, are disabled, gay….that the only wish should be for a happy and healthy baby.

  Dianna Agron

  Baby, Children, Believe

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• We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of individual groups or people -be they indigenous peoples, or peoples of Asian or African or American descent, or Jews or Muslims- are not sacrificed on an altar of progress for some while there are setbacks to others.

  Matthew Coon Come

  Rights, People, Progress

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• I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.

  Eminem

  White, Guy, Mexican

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• Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Differences, America, Atmosphere

  Ban-Ki moon speech at the United Nations climate change conference in Bali, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2007.

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• Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Dream, Years, Racism

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• I only dated one Asian girl, but she was very Asian. She was a panda.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

  Dev Patel

  Growing Up, Guy, India

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• Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, Team, White

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• Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

  Sandra Oh

  Hollywood, Actors, Likes

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• The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?

  Eriq La Salle

  Insomnia, White, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Hard Work, Native American

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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