Asian Quotes
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Asian Quotes & Sayings
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I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.
— Tiger Woods
Capital dictates the fate of humanity.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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
How much does he lack himself who must have many things?
— Sen No Rikyu
I was as Asian as a bowl of corn flakes.
— Rhys Ford
For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.
— Donnie Yen
The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.
— David Douglas Duncan
I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
— Jackie Chan
Pakistan is the first South Asian country to sign a free trade agreement and currency swap agreement with China.
— Li Keqiang
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
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Asia has a great future; we here in the Philippines will benefit from this Asian prosperity.
— Andrew Tan
It's nice to be a woman, and it's nice to be an Asian. But what's more important is what I can bring back to my district.
— Grace Meng
Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
— Sandra Oh
I love my black hair, but some imes I'd like to be blond, but I don't think it suits Asian girl ... What a pity!
— Ming Xi
Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.
— Jay Leno
As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.
— Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.
— Jasmine Trias
Only on a few occasions had I ever been comfortable showing my body off, and now here I was, taking a job where Asian boobs and ass ran free.
— Teresa Lo
Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.
— Jeremy Lin
Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'
— Martin Wong
I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold ...
— Elizabeth Gilbert
It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.
— Denis Markell
I've always wanted to be in comedy ... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.
— Anna Akana
It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.
— John Cho
People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.
— Charlemagne Palestine
For people in London, Asian flavors are always part of the culture, more than in New York.
— Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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
Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.
— Yani Tseng
I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between.
— Monique Truong
These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were.
— John McLaughlin
Hong Kong is a good fashion city. The interest is enormous. There's good potential in the Asian market.
— Stefan Persson
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
— Denis Diderot
The rise of the global middle class will pave the way for a new golden age in Australian society.
— Asher Judah
For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character.
— Daniel Wu
And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
— Jet Li
I do think that Japan will be one of the nations that have equality, and that, too, will serve as an example for other Asian nations.
— George Takei
There's one stereotype in the industry that Asian people aren't funny, I've heard that over and over again.
— Randall Park
When Asian people grow up fast they go to college at 13. White people grow up fast it's about fudge packing and triple D's at 13.
— Adam Carolla
The basic stupidity of modern Japan is that we've learned absolutely nothing from our contact with other Asian peoples.
— Haruki Murakami
I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
— Ziyi Zhang
How many buff Asian faces do you see at a white party? It is pretty apropos that they call a party like that, since only white guys are allowed there!
— Bathhouse Blues
My look is 'Poly'n'Asian' - part Polynesian native, part Asian warrior.
— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Good humour was miles behind a second cup of morning tea. It was too early for nonsense.
— Zeenat Mahal
I will never forget my ASIAN fans, because they're so welcome with me, its my best moment ever
— Greyson Chance
They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
— Iris Chang
I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.
— Benigno Aquino III
I met a woman who told me that she wasn't attracted to Asians. "No worries," I said. "I'm not attracted to racists
— Simon Tam
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
— Ted Allen
There are no Asian movie stars
— Aaron Sorkin
In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.
— ASAP Rocky
People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman.'
— Sung Hi Lee
Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.
— Kevin Kwan
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
In Asian gardens you could look at rock and imagine water, you could gaze at a still pool and believe it had the hardness of rock.
— Michael Ondaatje
The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
— Samuel P. Huntington
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
I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.
— Margaret Cho
Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.
— Maggie Q
My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
— Randall Park
her cheeks a slight Asian red;
— Ned Vizzini
Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.
— Grace Meng
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
My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
— Kelvin Yu
That Asian guy is really good at kicking. Shocking. Someone is pressing 'A' really fast somewhere.
— Daniel Tosh
I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.
— Jourdan Dunn
I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school ... who failed math.
— Dat Phan
Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
— Jeremy Lin
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
— Lisa Ling
I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.
— Justin Chon
Henry Wu was a young Asian guy, straight out of tooth school, or wherever they went.
— Tarryn Fisher
We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.
— Ichiro Ozawa
I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.
— Monique Truong
In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks.
— Li Keqiang
The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.
— Bharati Mukherjee
The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions.
— Michelle Yeoh
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
Miracle means; when a South Asian Woman does not turn into an elephant after marriage.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.
— Yelawolf
They travel in groups. You never see an Asian by their self.
— Chelsea Handler