Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Ling

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

Lex is one of the most important calling cards. It's very popular in the States and has an increasing name in Asia and Europe. We now produce more Lex online because the world is going online.

Let me be clear, the audit did not single out Asian Americans as Asian Americans.

Liberty is a compelling opportunity to penetrate or consolidate Europe, Asia and South American cable markets, but since it trades in the U.S. and it is dollar denominated, the foreign benefits will be somewhat muted.

Let's face it. The obsession that the industry, especially cable channels, have to stories about missing, pretty white girls has gotten a little ridiculous. I don't know that the solution, though, is to start covering every missing black, Hispanic and Asian woman, too. Perhaps this is a moment for editors to take a moment and say, hey, wait, are we really doing the right thing here?

So many of the consumer electronics we buy from China are simply assembled there from parts made in other Asian countries. In yuan terms, that would make the parts they buy cheaper. So it wouldn't have much effect.

We're glad to see that sales in Europe have turned around. McDonald's said nothing about Asia so that could mean that they're still sucking wind there.

No doubt, in the next 20 to 25 years, Asia is where the growth is coming. They're going to need those risk-transfer markets.

Rev. Stephen Tong?s evangelistic ministry goes all around the world to reach out to all nations. We go to wherever that needs to hear the Gospel, from South America, Europe, South Asia and all to way to East Asia.

Sadaharu Oh

Personally, I think Japan is the strongest team in Asia and we want to finish Pool A as the top team in the group.

Alan Greenspan

only the peripheral winds of the Asian crisis.

I believe that the Asian flu has turned into cancer and that the cancer will spread to Europe and the Western hemisphere.

I believe we have a very strong line-up. The eight players have produced some terrific golf over the past 12 months which is clearly reflected by their finishes on the Japan and Asian tours.

I believe the Asian markets are stabilizing and if you look at the Japanese market, I think the market has put in a bottom in Japan as well and that cannot hurt the U.S. market in the intermediate term.

Seve Ballesteros

I am really very happy with the final score today. It has been a great two days of competition and the European Team played fantastic. The Asian team also showed a tremendous game. On this occasion we had a little more luck, but at the end of the day golf is the real champion.

I am slightly more optimistic about Asia today than I was, say, three months ago,

Ian (Thorpe) is now in the top three most recognized sports stars in Japan behind Tigers Woods and David Beckham. (But) it is a getting to know you process ... Ian has been to Asia at least 20 times and immersed himself in the culture.

John MacArthur

caused excitement recently when he uncovered evidence in China that indicates anthropoid primates may have developed fist in Asia rather than Africa.

Stephen Kinzer

Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes to Anatolia, established the Ottoman Empire and ruled for centuries over large swaths of Europe and Asia are the subject of countless legends, poems and books.

Paul Wolfowitz

Because thousands of brave men and women from 22 nations put their lives on the line, the face of Asia was changed dramatically for the better,

Hu Jintao

China's development can only bring up opportunities for Asian countries and contribute to Asia's economic growth, and will never impede success of others, nor pose any threat to anybody,

China's currency practices are constraining other emerging Asian countries from pursuing greater flexibility.

China hopes Japanese leaders could take seriously the feelings of the Asian countries that fell victims of Japanese militarists, really express their remorse for the historical tragedy and put what they have promised into practice.

China has become one of the largest traders and investors with many Asian countries.

Randall Park

My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

No other state in the nation stands to derive as much of an economic stimulus from the opening of the Asian beef market as Nebraska. However, economic gains are going to be slow going as food-processing firms attempt to re-establish a beef presence in these foreign markets.

Now that many of the East Asian countries have enough reserves, there is no need to massively increase the reserves from here for many countries.

Now reality is beginning to sink in -- that Asia is basically a long-term workout. I really don't see much relief from Asia for quite a while. I think we'll get tired of hearing about Asia before the year is over, but it's really earnings that's key. It's growth that's really the issue.

Growth in Asia is strategically very important to us. From a strategic point of view Hong Kong is what we were after.

Given the domestic demand-led recovery, I would expect Japan to increase imports from China and other Asian economies this year, in a move to share the role with the United States as a major driving force in the world economy.

Frankly, I would say that the trend of ongoing pressure from Asia isn't a particular surprise. The great percentage of the impact from Asia has probably already been felt in Boeing's stock price, but there will be some residual delay associated with earnings.

France is benefiting from the global upturn we're seeing, with increasing numbers of companies in Asia and the U.S. buying investment goods in particular.

Daniel Yergin

Fourteen months ago, oil seemed to be in a bull market ? then Asia collapsed, ... This is basically a gross domestic product crisis driven by Asia, so the real prospects are whether you think Asia by the year 2000 will start showing signs of recovery.