Ted Allen
Chef
"I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles."
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Jeremy Lin
Professional Basketball Player
"I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community."
Kim Dae-jung
Politician
"I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy."
Robert Morgan
Poet, Novelist
"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
Chad Hugo
Musician
"For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity."
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"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."
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"Singapore was the very first South-east Asian nation to join the global coalition against ISIL (ISIS) coalition, and we'll work to sustain our momentum in destroying that terrorist organisation."
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"People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman."
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"If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards and says, "That joke offended me," I'm still more or less not going to listen, but at least it makes sense, like I said something that was about them."
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"I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life."
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"Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes."
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"I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!"
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"You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S."
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"So how do Latinos feel if there's a big investment just in the African American community, and they're looking around and saying, "We're poor as well. What kind of help are we getting?" Or Asian Americans who say, "Look, I'm a first-generation immigrant, and clearly I didn't have anything to do with what was taking place.""
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"Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have been jailed since March. Isn't that great? This is big, yeah. Or as Clinton calls it, another Asian happy ending."
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"I love the Asian countries."
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"Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem."
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"As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is."
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"Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent."
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"Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is always changing. Believe it or not, at one time Blacks were the favored model minority over Asian Americans."
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"I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly."
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"I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said."
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"So it may be a language that separates you - again, social networks. But second-generation Asian and Hispanics, second, and third and fourth and so on, they are much more likely to be in integrated churches than are blacks or whites."
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"My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot."
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