Japan Quotes - Page 31

• To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan.

  Henry Rollins

  Confusion, Way, Middle

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• America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

  Akio Morita

  Years, America, Looks

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• For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

  Joichi Ito

  Believe, Korea, Two Sides

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• I wanted out of the navy so bad in '45, I faked homo to get a discharge. It didn't matter that the Germans surrendered, I knew we were heading to Japan and I was done with that scene.

  Lenny Bruce

  Navy, Done, Matter

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia.

  Suzi Quatro

  Europe, Australia, Busy

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• I've done Last Samurai in Japan, in LA, in New Zealand. Even in Japan it is very hard to shoot, because there's been so many changes. Only around a temple can we shoot.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Done, Samurai, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Stories, Samurai, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Organization, People

  "The Myth and Reality of the Japanese Corporation". Chief Executive Magazine, Summer 1981.

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• May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when he let me play his guitar on stage with him.

  Gary Hoey

  Guitar, Play, May

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• I just went along for the ride. It was a God-given gift. It is. So you can't say well, you wasted your life because you spent all of it acting, but I think gosh, I've never been to China, I've never been to Japan. I've never been to Yellowstone Park.

  Angela Lansbury

  Thinking, Yellowstone, Acting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Aomori Water is a sound collage piece made in 1998, in Aomori Japan. I was in a residency with other artists. A Japanese sculptor was making a round house and wanted a sound piece to play in it. I recorded some very gentle waves lapping the beach, for the first part. And a very small mountain stream, flowing, for the second part. I layered 8 tracks. This was the first work that I did in ProTools.

  Phill Niblock

  Beach, Artist, Play

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• It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end. People can take from it what they need. If somebody says, "Your art is very funny," I say, "You are totally right." If somebody says, "Your art is very sad," I say, "You are totally right." In Japan they say, "Your art is very Japanese, you even look Japanese.Your great-grandfather was most surely a Japanese man." And I say, "You are totally right."

  Christian Boltanski

  Art, Men, People

  "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.

  Linda Hoaglund

  Country, Teacher, Children

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

  Donald Richie

  Travel, Together, Wasting Time

  Donald Richie (1998). “A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan”, p.16, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

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• I lived in Japan for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and hard partying in Shibuya and Roppongi by night. On more than a few nights, those subways were my own personal stage coach to hell.

  Sturgill Simpson

  Party, Night, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender... In being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.

  William D. Leahy

  War, Dark, Ethical Standards

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

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• Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very important that they come along and contribute to these things.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Mean, Europe

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• My first Indy 500 was one of my high points. I ended up qualifying fourth and I finished fourth. I had a win in Japan a few years later, and then qualifying for Daytona was great as well.

  Danica Patrick

  Winning, Years, Firsts

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• When you have the countries like Germany, China, and Russia decline, and be replaced by others, that's when systemic wars start. That's when it gets dangerous, because they haven't yet reached a balance. So Germany united in 1871 and all hell broke loose. Japan rose in the early 20th century, and then you had chaos. So we're looking at a systemic shift. Be ready for war.

  George Friedman

  Country, War, Russia

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

  George Friedman

  Country, War, Europe

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The cool thing is, when we first did our joint Ring Of Honour-New Japanies Wrestlers, I think that definitely existed. I think the ROH guys were like, "we can't let these New Japan guys outshine us" the new japan guys were ready to make a statement as it was this really big event in America. But the cool thing about this relationship is we've literally become a family now. A lot of us are friends with each. We obviously respect each other.

  Adam Cole

  Thinking, America, Guy

  Source: 411mania.com

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• There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.

  Don DeLillo

  Quality, Phrases, Might

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When I went to Japan I sang in Japanese; when I went to Greece I sang in Greek. When I went to Spain, I sang in Spanish. I couldn't speak it very well, but I sang, I was beautiful in singing it. These things just constantly attracted people to the uniqueness of who I was and the way in which I performed.

  Harry Belafonte

  Beautiful, People, Greek

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 1, 2011.

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• It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan. Should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.

  Shinzo Abe

  Peace, Loss, Mass Destruction

  "Japan's Abe pledges support for Mideast countries battling IS" by Stephen Kalin, www.reuters.com. January 17, 2015.

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• In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West. Pornography is more restricted, but it's not hard to make a crazy, extremely violent film.

  Takashi Miike

  Crazy, Violent Films, West

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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