Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe in it as its own literary tradition, because your race plays a great factor in how you are seen by the world, and how you see the world; the fact that I'm an Asian American isn't incidental to who I am as a writer. Where it becomes difficult is defining what, if anything identifiable at all, makes an Asian American book an Asian American book, other than the fact of its creator being Asian. And I'd argue that there is nothing identifiable beyond that.
Every election is different, every context is different. I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president Bill Clinton was important.
[H]uman beings. . . make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts. . . the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.
I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.
I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger
If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.
You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.
I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful, that it was wrong to charge blame to these pretty beasts who knew neither good nor evil but only innocence. I say that of these ponies. I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces? Some preachers will say, well, that is superstitious "claptrap. " My answer is this: Preacher, go to your Bible and read Luke 8: 26-33
I don't believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we're all connected.
I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.
I hope people can stop believing everything politicians say about Mexico and the United States, and the problems that we share.
I believe the power to make money is a gift from God. . . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
Stand by what you believe in. People who mind won't matter and people who matter won't mind it
The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.
I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.
I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.
Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage.
I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.
