Best Asia Qoutes
328 Asia quotes by 275 unique authors
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So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe…
— Tim Wise
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There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.
— Amy Chua
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Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is…
— Gregory David Roberts
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There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America…
— Jess Walter
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For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took…
— Carl Sagan
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Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.
— Rainbow Rowell
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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…
— Michelle Yeoh
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I live between Europe, America and Asia.
— Nicola Formichetti
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The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the…
— Paul Johnson
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Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we…
— Loretta Napoleoni
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Turkey tail mushrooms have been used to treat various maladies for hundreds of years in Asia, Europe, and by indigenous peoples in North America. Records…
— Paul Stamets
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Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that…
— Li Bingbing
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If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.
— Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
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Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
— Rem Koolhaas
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I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an…
— Paul Theroux
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
— Ferdinand Marcos
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
— Ferdinand Marcos
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America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the…
— Ferdinand Marcos
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Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will be united. Companies…
— Lech Walesa
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My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided…
— Scott Anderson
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus?…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even…
— F. Sionil Jose
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America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication…
— Laurie Helgoe
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Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. So, as Asia becomes a much more economic influence on the…
— Sung Kang
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The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the…
— Shashi Tharoor
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