Jennifer Lee Quotes

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• If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.
• Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the achievements of Asian…
• In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing…
• Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.
• If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead…
• People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.
• You know, search has never been a strong suit of Facebook.
• When I signed up for Google Plus, it recommended 500 people for me to invite. You know, and once I invited those 500 people I…
• Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that from the app…
• People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors…
• Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of…
• Headline writing is an art form.
• Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.
• The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.
• With wok cooking, you chop things up into little pieces for maximum surface area, so they can cook in minutes, if not seconds. Sauteing is…
• So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.
• Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in the 1800s, but…
• Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.
• I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
• My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

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