Asian Quotes · Page 19

In Australia, it's people from Asian countries who most often recognise me. There are often people just looking at me at the…

— Miranda Otto

Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated…

— William J. Clinton

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

— Charlemagne Palestine

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

— John Foster

Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Let's take Southeast Asia. The last 20, 30 years has been what's called the "Asian Miracle" - fast economic growth, industrial society.…

— Noam Chomsky

Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There…

— Anonymous

If you're Filipino, you're the beaner of the Asian community 'cause you're just like us. You're indigenous people that got banged by…

— Carlos Mencia

I hope K-dramas can make inroads into more Asian countries.

— Lee Seung-gi

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

— Suzanne Fields

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985…

— Manmohan Singh

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of…

— Joan Chen

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see…

— Lucy Liu

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining…

— Samuel P. Huntington

For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.

— Paul Virilio

I want to show people out there that there's such a huge spectrum of people within the queer and Asian community.

— Nico Santos

As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano…

— Subcomandante Marcos

I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't…

— August Wilson

I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of…

— Rain

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned,…

— Ayumi Hamasaki

Australia - not western in geography, of course, but in every other respect for sure (it certainly doesn't want to be regarded…

— Martin Jacques

In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no…

— ASAP Rocky

During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in…

— Jahangir Khan

Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not.

— Tamlyn Tomita