Famous Quotes & Sayings

The prospect for price improvement depends on the performance of the Asian and European economies, who are big users of metals, and the prospects are getting better. There's still a lot of uncertainty there, but relatively speaking the signs are fairly encouraging.

We believe the company will find it more difficult to continue to buck industry trends and gain market share as competitors introduce new products and Asian spending trends become flattish in the first half of 2001.

There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.

Ryan Coogler

I grew up with white friends, Asian friends - Vietnamese, Chinese, Pacific Islanders. I had Hispanic friends, not just Mexican friends, but Guatemalan friends, Honduran friends, and we knew the difference, you know?

We don't know anything about the Asian teams. But the most important thing is what your team is like. Our team is very good. We've played to the level we should.

We won't know the full effects of the Asian crisis until at least the second quarter of the new year.

We won the singles today, but the European team took the trophy. Europe is a great team and so was the Asian team. I was happy to see the boys fight back after yesterday. For a moment, it looked possible that we could upset Europe and our players grew in confidence. We proved today that we could compete.

We believe fallout from the Asian currency crisis will lead to steep cuts in capital spending programs at many of the leading Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese firms.

Alex Wong

The decline today was a disappointing end to the year. The weak performance was attributable to weak Asian stocks as well as profit-taking after recent gains.

Michelle Landry

Today, the third-graders tasted Asian food, and they loved it. The performers for Thursday's shows practiced in their costumes, which made them glow, and we loved watching them.

Mark Takano

When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.

Richard Hastings

Unlike Europe, Asian markets are more receptive to big-box formats, ... The model of relationships between households, labor, production, the market and resources are more easy to replicate there.

We get asked for things we don't have, a lot of Asian ingredients.

With still strong domestic demand and improving international demand, the factory sector is continuing to recover from the sluggishness that resulted from the Asian economic crisis.

Films that are made in Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo and Bangkok tend to feed off each other and multiply the potential of Asian cinema.

Expectations of further increases in U.S. interest rates are partly encouraging investors to take money out from Asian stocks. Fund outflows have been weighing on regional currencies.

The real meaning of being an Asian director is we can put the power of culture from all Asian countries together and show everything people can possibly imagine.

David Henry Hwang

I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

Samuel P. Huntington

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.

We see that elevated oil prices and a continued Asian central bank intervention ensures that foreign demand for U.S. treasuries remains strong during January.

Ivan Krastev

In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.' This is all abolished now. The very idea of a governing party and party career, as you have in China, that didn't work.

Isaiah Washington

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question.

Benigno Aquino III

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

Mark Kirk

When you look at the state of the economy right now, you have to set a priority. And my top priority is the deficit of jobs and economic growth, and especially this perception that the United States could be falling behind especially Asian economies.

This report indicates manufacturing is continuing to rebound from the Asian crisis, which is exactly what the Fed expects.

Pete du Pont

We run very strongly with the Asian community, with the Hispanic community, not as well yet with the Black community. I think that's coming.

Eric Ross

We keep hearing from our Asian supply chain partners that AMD is having a great quarter.

We think the next UN Secretary-General should be picked from an Asian country.

Derek Mitchell

Why is he going to Mongolia? ... It is part of the mantra of Bush's second term of promoting democracy. Mongolia is the only Asian communist country to go democratic and they have troops in Iraq.