Asian Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

  Edward James Olmos

  African American, Way, Latino

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• What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?

  Ron Paul

  White, Political, Needs

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• I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'

  Mazie Hirono

  Buddhist, Gay, Government

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• The challenge for me, and for Asian models in general has been convincing editors, stylists and photographers that we can have mass appeal, but Asian, especially Chinese models have become a stronger presence. Just a season or two ago, there weren't many models for me to talk with backstage in my native Mandarin. Now I usually have no trouble finding someone at any show.

  Liu Wen

  Editors, Two, Challenges

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• There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.

  Jasmine Trias

  Mold, Want, Break

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• Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'

  Martin Wong

  School, Juniors, Junior High

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• I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

  Annie Ilonzeh

  Acceptance, White, People

  "Annie Ilonzeh Doesn’t See Color But Is Happy To Be Charlie’s First Black Angel". Interview with Rebecca Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

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• I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.

  August Wilson

  Betrayal, Play, Ideas

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• Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. I'll be as asian as I want to (Stretches his eyes in a racist manner).

  Thom Yorke

  Eye, Racist, Want

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• Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Powerful, Ambition, Russia

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• The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Dwarves, Sea, Kuwait

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.120, Basic Books

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• We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious, they fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.

  Pol Pot

  Country, Hurt, Attention

  "Pol Pot remembered" by Elizabeth Becker, news.bbc.co.uk. April 20, 1998.

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• I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Japan, Ideas, People

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• But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Believe, Judging

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• Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps already living in Europe while we emerged in Africa... In other words, we are an improbable and fragile entity, fortunately successful after precarious beginnings as a small population in Africa, not the predictable end result of a global tendency. We are a thing, an item of history, not an embodiment of general principles.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Cousin, Successful, Science

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".

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• As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  America, Justice, Firsts

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• My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Marriage, Mother, Father

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• The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Loyalty, Thinking, Nwo

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