Top 38 Quotes About Asian Culture
#1. These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
Ang Lee
#2. 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
#3. I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#4. political and economic development among civilizations are clearly rooted in their different cultures. East Asian economic success has its source in East Asian culture, as do the difficulties East Asian societies have had in achieving stable democratic political systems. Islamic
Samuel P. Huntington
#5. I've done a lot of books with Asian antecedents to them - some of my fantasy novels have been that way, and certainly in the 'Battletech' universe, there's a lot of Asian culture in that.
Michael A. Stackpole
#6. In American culture you leave home at 18. In the Asian culture, your parents don't really want you to leave home. So my parents just thought I was going to be one of those kids. I was like, "I'm never going to make a living at whatever I do." I just liked pretty things.
Jason Wu
#7. Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
Lisa Ling
#8. I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
Tao Lin
#9. People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.
David Chang
#10. Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.
Malcolm Gladwell
#11. Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.
Takashi Murakami
#12. My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.
Andrea Jung
#13. Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table.
Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!?
Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?
Bill Watterson
#14. I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.
Anastacia Oaikhena
#15. Pop culture is just a rubik's cube of shit stacked on shit. And it's always turning and you can't figure it out. Ever. Unless you're a tiny Asian boy who can do it SO quickly! Where did this metaphore go? In Kim Kardashian's butt!
Grace Helbig
#16. American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.
Helen Mirren
#17. Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?
Rickie Lee Jones
#18. I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
Rain
#19. Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.
Kevin Kwan
#20. But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.
Dale Earnhardt
#21. In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
Mitch Daniels
#22. Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
Henri Nouwen
#23. The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.
Kevin Kwan
#24. I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.
Simon S. Tam
#25. They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#26. I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.
Dev Patel
#27. You cannot lead people you do not influence.
Johnny Hunt
#28. It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.
Edward Gibbon
#30. Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness.
Paz Vega
#31. Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#32. Basically, Koreans are the Marlboro Men of Asia.
Euny Hong
#33. Nevertheless, Rhetoric is useful, because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible.
Aristotle.
#34. Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.
Andy Hargreaves
#35. I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.
Adrian Tomine
#36. Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.
Martin Yan
#37. At the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk, who, cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned them cordially. "There's another fellow," muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: "my clerk, with fifteen
Charles Dickens
#38. No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.
Chang-rae Lee
