Japan Quotes - Page 5

• Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Cab Drivers

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• When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or any Asian country, they can turn a television into a watch. They're very creative. And you look at the Indians, they have been very gifted in the spirituality.

  Reggie White

  Country, Creativity, Creative

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• Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

  Morinosuke Kawaguchi

  Girly, Technology, Growth

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• The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

  Mark Zandi

  Financial, Commodity, Economy

  "Mark Zandi: No Global Impact From Japan". Interview with Lori Ann LaRocco, www.cnbc.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, People, Feelings

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• Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Iraq, United States, Dollars

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• You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

  Steven Seagal

  Powerful, Cia Agents, Long

  "Steven Seagal Gets a Shot at Stardom". Interview with Patrick Goldstein, articles.latimes.com. February 14, 1988.

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• As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

  Henry L. Stimson

  War, Unconditional Love, Leaving

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• In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.

  Maurice Strong

  Cells, Car, Cost

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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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• In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Vietnam, Matter

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.319, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

  Harry Seidler

  Summer, Earthquakes, Climate

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• Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

  Isabella Bird

  Novelty, Planets, Offers

  Isabella Lucy Bird (2010). “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Volume 1: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

  John Boorman

  Numbers, Directors, Assistants

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• A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

  George Alagiah

  Future, Earthquakes, Vision

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• My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Believe, Surrender, Staff

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• Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.

  Paul Nitze

  War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Russia

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• I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Awards, Literature

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents

  Phil Collins

  Kids, Europe, America

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• But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
  Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

  Steve Goodman

  Years, League, Bombs

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• The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Rights

  George Mikes (1959). “How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained”

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• The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Bows

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• Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Rocks

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them. We didn't know that in America after the war, you wouldn't be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Sorry, War

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• We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear.

  Mark Steyn

  Meaningful, Political, Borders

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