Asian Quotes - Page 9

• The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Country, Japan, East

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• I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

  Joseph Jarman

  Sound, African Music, Western Music

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• Chairman Priebus set out on an early and historic political outreach plan which called for investing resources early to build the RNC network well before Election Day. And although the elections are still eight months away, all indications are that the money has been well spent. Our message is getting out to the Hispanic, Asian and African American communities. If we can continue to implement this plan, we will be able to save the country from further policy damages at the hand of President Obama and the Democrats.

  Matt Schlapp

  Country, Opportunity, Eight

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• In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Luxury, Long, Tourists

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• Our country has caused tremendous damage and pain to the peoples of many countries, especially Asian countries, through colonial rule and invasion. Humbly acknowledging such facts of history, I once again reflect most deeply and offer apologies from my heart as well as express my condolences to all the victims of the last major war both in and out of the country,.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Country, Pain, War

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• China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.

  Wen Jiabao

  Russia, Organization, Effort

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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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• It was hard for me to do the show (All-American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I was on a morning show and the host said, "Awright, Margaret, we're changing over to an ABC affiliate! So why don't you tell our viewers in your native language that we're making that transition?" So I looked at the camera and said, "Um, they're changing over to an ABC affiliate."

  Margaret Cho

  Girl, Morning, Native Language

  "Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want". TV Special, August 4, 2000.

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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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• I don't see myself a Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.

  Tiger Woods

  White, Black, Green

  "All Eyes on Tiger as He Enters Jungle" by Andy Farrell, www.independent.co.uk. April 04, 1997.

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• Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Teacher, Culture, Command

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• I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types, immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being, is no vice.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Doubt, Liberty

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 44), 2013.

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• Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman candidate confronts a higher threshold in establishing himself to the voters ... Are some voters not going to vote for me because I'm African American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Powerful, Race

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• Generally, I am just myself, a crazy John Belushi type. But I'm not comparing myself to him. I think I am against stereotype. Generally Asian guys are more quiet - they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have none of those things.

  Bobby Lee

  Crazy, Thinking, Work Ethic

  "Bobby Lee On Comedy, Survival And Being ‘A Big, Sweaty Ball Of Flesh’". Interview With Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Moving, Fighting

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• I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Grateful, Moon

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 09, 2012

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• All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Player, People

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• Hillary Clinton was actually inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame yesterday. Hillary said she's very proud of her Irish heritage or her Italian heritage or her Asian heritage. Whatever it takes to seal the deal with you guys. I've got to get into that Oval Office.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Italian, Yesterday, Office

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• 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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