Japan Quotes - Page 4

• Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

  Jon Courtenay Grimwood

  Differences, Half, Crime

  Jon Courtenay Grimwood (2017). “End Of The World Blues”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.

  David Letterman

  War, World, Karaoke

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• While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.

  Shinzo Abe

  Years, Important, Reform

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• Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, People

  "The Second World War, Volume III : The Grand Alliance". Book by Winston S. Churchill, chapter 32, 1950.

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• Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix.

  William Gibson

  Past, Brain, Asian

  Source: www.heddels.com

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• The cold war is over; Japan won.

  Paul Tsongas

  War, Cold, Cold War

  "The 1992 Campaign : Campaign Memo; Voters Want Candidates To Take a Reality Check" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. February 17, 1992.

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• President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

  David Letterman

  Korea, President, India

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• The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.

  Milton Friedman

  Europe, Numbers, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Educational, Australia

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Suicide, Suicidal

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• Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

  Ross Perot

  Funny, Humorous, Car

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• For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Mind, Spirit, Kind

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.

  Stanley Donwood

  Aesthetic Beauty, Feelings, Advertising

  "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.

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• 'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel to Japan. It started my love affair with this amazing country, its culture, its food, its cinema and made me buy my first ticket to the land of the rising sun.

  Jamie Cullum

  Country, Sex, Land

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• We can't defend Japan, a behemoth, selling us cars by the million.

  Donald Trump

  Car, Selling, Behemoth

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It's like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.

  Gerard Way

  Fun, Play, Two

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• Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight answer about anything.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Giving, Answers, Corporations

  Source: collider.com

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• Japan is the perfect example of make plans, and watch God laugh.

  Christopher Titus

  Perfect, Laughing, Example

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Style, Stories

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• To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as 'continual improvement.' Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change.

  Marci Shimoff

  Baby, Progress, Overcoming

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• In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Empty Mind, Experts

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• If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

  Kurt Masur

  Light, Play, Feelings

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• Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Real, Phones, Numbers

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• The fact of the matter is that Buddhism has changed a lot. When St. Francis of Xavier arrived in Japan, he wrote back to the Vatican and made a joke. "It is unfortunate," he said, "that the Lutherans were here before me." By this he meant that Pure Land Buddhism was so much like Lutheranism.

  Ninian Smart

  Buddhism, Land, Matter

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.

  Shaun White

  Travel, Crazy, Home

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