Asian Quotes · Page 26

The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education…

— Amartya Sen

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security.…

— Henry Louis Gates

Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in…

— Ban Ki-moon

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud…

— Henry Golding

To put things back into perspective, back when we as people were struggling to survive through winters, or even through the night,…

— Maynard James Keenan

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on…

— Mike Pence

We need an effective American diplomacy that will marshall the resources of nations in the Asian Pacific Rim to put pressure on…

— Mike Pence

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

— Jackie Chan

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

— Jasmine Trias

I've played roles that aren't expected of an Asian.

— John Cho

I hoped that I would be a lead in my career; of course that was a hope of mine. But I never…

— Lana Condor

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to…

— Gene Luen Yang

There was a stage when I was a little embarrassed about my Asian upbringing.

— Henry Golding

Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist.

— Rudy Giuliani

My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They…

— Pol Pot

I'm a South Asian female that talks about relationships and periods and dating and all these things.

— Lilly Singh

I had a phase where I had a mustache. There was several times where I had a mustache. I had a mustache…

— Hari Kondabolu

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real…

— Don Lemon

It's very hard, you know, for an Asian actor to be in a prime-time television series.

— Sammo Hung

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I got comments about being too small, too short, there haven't been any Asian players and who am I to go out…

— Michael Chang

Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to…

— Juan Enriquez

I wasn't treated different to anyone else, I just performed on the pitch and that helped my selection for the 'Development England'…

— Isa Guha

The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.

— Junichiro Koizumi