Asia Quotes
In our community, we have those from the Middle East and those from Asia ... setting up shops and providing goods and services we should be providing for ourselves.
When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.
As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.
If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.
As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.
I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.
Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.
The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.
In London, Washington, and Paris, people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.
That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.
There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.
My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.
President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.
The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.
Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.
I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.
Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!
You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.
In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.
The longest journey is not the journey from Asia to Antarctica, but it is the journey to know yourself.
Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.
And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.
And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure.
We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.
Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.
I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.
It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.
My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.
There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.
Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.
When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.
Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.
In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group.
