Japan Quotes - Page 15

• I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

  Tadanobu Asano

  Other Worlds, Different, Done

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• Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Nature, Animal, Men

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• I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

  Marcel Carne

  Art, Important, Emperor

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• Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.

  Roman Coppola

  Kyoto, Dresses, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.

  Margot Livesey

  Cheer, War, Motherhood

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• I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

  Shinzo Abe

  Responsibility, Thinking, World

  "U.S. 'only indispensable alliance'". Interview with Lally Weymouth, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 23, 2007.

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• I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

  Shinzo Abe

  Strong, United States, Alliances

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• Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

  Shinzo Abe

  Beautiful, Sea, Land

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• The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.

  Shinzo Abe

  Believe, Humility, Responsibility

  "U.S. 'only indispensable alliance'". Interview with Lally Weymouth, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 23, 2007.

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• To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too.

  Shinzo Abe

  Children, Issues, People

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• In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Guitar, People, Way

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• After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

  Bruce Feiler

  College, United States, Wanted

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• I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

  Dhani Harrison

  Couple, Dad, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Suffering, Break Out

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• By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

  Townsend Harris

  Mean, California, Steam

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• If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Writing, Numbers

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• He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Wisdom, Ideas, Agriculture

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• Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Military, World, Militarism

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• It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  People, Justice, Ordinary

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1997). “Letters From Burma:”

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• Members of the Rae Chorze-Fwaz order trace their origins back through Tibet, Japan, China, India, and ancient Egypt to the place the order was founded, the lost continent of Atlantis.

  Frederick Lenz

  Egypt, Order, Atlantis

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!

  W. Edwards Deming

  Thinking, People, Miracle

  "NBC White Paper (If Japan Can... Why Can't We?)". TV Series, June 24, 1980.

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• Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Average, People

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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• They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'

  Bill Maher

  Regulation, Saws, Republican

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• Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

  Tadanobu Asano

  Country, People, Want

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• Many of the countries outpacing the United States in the deployment of high speed Internet services, including Canada, Japan and South Korea, have successfully combined municipal systems with privately deployed networks to wire their countries, .. As a country, we cannot afford to cut off any successful strategy if we want to remain internationally competitive.

  John McCain

  Country, Cutting, Successful

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