Tokyo Quotes - Page 3

• The karate that has been introduced to Tokyo is actually just a part of the whole. The fact that those who have learnt karate there feel it only consists of kicks & punches, and that throws & locks are only to be found in judo or jujutsu, can only be put down to a lack of understanding ... Those who are thinking of the future of karate should have an open mind and strive to study the complete art

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Inspirational, Art, Future

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• Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.

  Andrew Sarris

  Passion, Years, Feelings

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• McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Revenge, Mcdonalds, Pearls

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• I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.

  John R. Rice

  New York, Real, Cities

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• When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Thinking, Stories

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

  Rebecca MacKinnon

  People, Good Times, Trendy

  "Japan's booming drug culture" by Rebecca MacKinnon, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2003.

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• Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

  Maya Angelou

  Library, Different, Information

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• It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Baseball, Party

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• The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city, Tokyo must be used more efficiently and the population density increased.

  Minoru Mori

  Cities, Environmental, Population

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• All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs.. 100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs.. 500,000 altogether over several days say some.

  Robert McNamara

  Country, War, Night

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• [On Los Angeles:] This city is a hundred years old but try and find some trace of its history. Every culture is swallowed up and spat out as a franchise. Taco Bell. Benihana of Tokyo. Numero Uno Pizza. Pup 'N' Taco. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Fast food sushi. Teriyaki Bowl.

  Anne Finger

  Kentucky, Years, Cities

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• From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

  Douglas MacArthur

  Ideas, Australia, Victory

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• Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.

  Chris Matthews

  Gold, Bills, Clinton

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi... all of a sudden this city will start to go. In a flash, the buildings will crumble. Over the Tokyo streets will fall my China, like ash, leaching into everything it touches. Slowly, gradually, until nothing remains. No, this isn't a place for me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Cities, Ashes

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• The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Mcdonalds, Florence

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I went to Tokyo three years ago. It was a job, though. I did an ad campaign for IBM, so they flew me out there to take pictures of me. It was IBM Global. It went to Australia, France, London, all over the world. But I think the ad campaign was a failure, because of me.

  Bobby Lee

  Jobs, Thinking, Australia

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• The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Military, Home, Blow

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• The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and a maid to press it for me.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

  Leslie Caron

  Japan, Cinema, Festivals

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• Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

  Bryan Ferry

  Wife, Lennon, Mets

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• Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Zero, Clothes, Mcdonalds

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.

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• I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

  Haruki Murakami

  Men, Imagination, Scare

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• I'm thinking about the end of civilization. We may not keep growing like we are now. There must be an end of civilization. That's what I did as a show at the Palais de Tokyo, the 33 scenarios of how this civilization ends.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Thinking, Civilization, Growing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to think [Shoji] Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard [Leach] published about his work [Hamada: Potter, Tokyo; New York: Harper & Row, 1975] and at the rear of the book were a number of wonderful little sketches, but they were not drawings like Bernard made.

  Warren MacKenzie

  New York, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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