Ascendancy Quote by Kevin Kwan Download Open image “The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.” — Kevin Kwan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ascendancy Asian Culture Idea Public
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
A lot of times, people think of Asian culture as some mythical world instead of modern people with modern occupations with modern problems, modern… — Constance Wu Copy Share Image
Everything in Asia is a culture shock, it's very different from North America, but it's great to be forced into a situation to meet… — Laurel Van Ness Copy Share Image
As a community, as a group of people as a society, Asian Americans have not always been visible, but we've always been present. — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
Asia's culture has planted its roots all over the world, and also has roots in my personal culture. — Carla Sozzani Copy Share Image
“Asian philosophy and culture never endured an intellectual upheaval like the Cartesian split of mind and body that brought the so-called Enlightenment to the… — Polly Young-Eisendrath Copy Share Image
I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us. — John Cho Copy Share
If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and… — Anwar Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I want to continue to broaden expectations of what an Asian can be. — Jessica Henwick Copy Share Image
When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them all of… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a whole other level of crazy. I've never met so many assistants who have assistants. It's a stratified society on its own. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household where there were really, really strong matriarchal characters. I think that's true of many Asian households. People tend… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I love Netflix and Amazon and watching movies on streamers as much as the next person. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“Scientists talk about how we inherit health issues from our parents through our genes, but we also inherit this entire lineage of fear and… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“All beings begin their lives with hope and aspirations. Among these aspirations is the desire that there will be a straight path to those… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live with and maintain ascendancy over same-gender attractions, the best way to do that is to have groups that… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It… — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind. — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. — Milton Sapirstein Copy Share Image
“Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prime example of a "Yellow Peril". Might Japan forever… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
