Japan Quotes - Page 33

• So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor, it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

  Naoto Kan

  Country, Vigor, Reason

  "Naoto Kan: 'Japan has lost its vigor'". www.cnn.com. November 17, 2010.

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• If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Country, Determination, Children

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• The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Country, Asian, East

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• The economy is very sick. We're losing our jobs to China to Japan to every country. We're making horrible trade deals. We are losing jobs in this country. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of jobs are being lost. And part of the reason is our taxes are so high in this country. I'm also cutting, you know they don't talk about that.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Cutting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven."

  Quentin Tarantino

  Summer, Different, Records

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Russia, Europe

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Turkeys, Selfishness, Littles

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• We made our debut in Japan about few years ago and when we went on a morning show there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu." But one of the members of our group said, "Stay quiet if you can't speak Japanese! It's embarrassing!" So that's when I told myself that I'd show how good I am by studying Japanese hard.

  Seungri

  Morning, Simple, Years

  Source: ygfamilyy.tumblr.com

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• I was an actor in Japan and I'm a regular on about three shows. I'm grateful for all of it. My personal activities like that help Big Bang as a whole as well.

  Seungri

  Grateful, Bangs, Three

  Source: ygfamilyy.tumblr.com

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• Chopsticks box! I didn't know before and put them on the table and my Japan friends scolded me.

  Seungri

  Tables, Chopsticks, Boxes

  Source: fyeahseungri.com

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• In Japan they're definitely more over the top. They had four Boogie stacks and 20 guitars. But otherwise it's pretty much the same thing, except there's a translator. It's really nice.

  John Petrucci

  Nice, Guitar, Four

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book. They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.

  Adam Richman

  Mom, Dad, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Shin [Biyajima] rides down with this big ol' Japanese grin and giggle and I'm like what? Two years later, when I started planning the trip, I knew Shin was from the Hakuba area, and I didn't want to come film in Japan without a Japanese rider. Shin had the time and availability, and it worked out perfect.

  Travis Rice

  Availability, Years, Two

  Source: www.outdoorjapan.com

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• I just think that's the most amazing thing to be able to go to places like Japan and surf all day and then that night, play music. It's never been one of those things that's disrupted the flow of one and other, they've just enhanced one and other. It's incredible. It's beautiful that I found these two things that help each other out.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Beautiful, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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• One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context.

  Richard Meier

  Real, Understanding, Challenges

  Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

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• Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].

  Rakim

  Writing, Want, Sat

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not excuse them.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Judging, Feminism, Doe

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• When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

  Matthew Sweet

  Play, People, Culture

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• It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

  Natan Sharansky

  Latin, Russia, America

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• I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Woods, Mistaken, Elijah

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• You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, Men, Names

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Oct 21, 2014

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• It's not worth comparing; Kara and SNSD are both Korean girl groups. I'm proud that Korean girl groups are being recognized in Japan Everyone has their preferences. There are people who like SNSD and there are people who like Kara.

  Seohyun

  Girl, People, Groups

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• We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'

  Pat Buchanan

  Oil, Iraq, America

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• With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.

  Ann Coulter

  Cancer, Earthquakes, Nuclear

  "A Glowing Report on Radiation". humanevents.com. March 16, 2011.

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• History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

  Amy Waldman

  People, Novelists, Example

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