Japan Quotes · Page 33

We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in…

— Jimmy Carter

We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and…

— Joan Halifax

Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community -…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“To sum up what is most crucial in Japanese political culture: the Japanese have never been encouraged to think that the force…

— Karel Van Wolferen

When the news first came that Japan had attacked us my first feeling was of relief that ... a crisis had come…

— Henry L. Stimson

“Matansa. It means massacre in the Chamorro language, and is a nickname for the village of San Roque in the northern part…

— M.B. Dallocchio

Global central banks are working hard to lift their economies through an aggressively easy monetary policy. The ECB [European Central Bank] and…

— Mark Zandi

'Kiss Land' is the story after 'Trilogy'; it's pretty much the second chapter of my life. The narrative takes place after my…

— The Weeknd

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is…

— Howard Rheingold

Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this…

— William Gibson

Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been…

— Elise Hu

We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North…

— Michael Bloomberg

I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little…

— Ken Watanabe

As for these 60 years, and in general more than a hundred years, we have had different periods in relations and there…

— Vladimir Putin

The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in…

— Arnold Leese

I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into…

— Hideo Kojima

'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel…

— Jamie Cullum

“The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often…

— Joan Stanley-Baker

Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on…

— Sam Harris

“Men know how to read printed books; they do not know how to read the unprinted ones. They can play on a…

— Kojisei

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do…

— Amy Waldman

“Insta-love isn’t something that happens in real life. It happens in the books I read, but not in the world I live.…

— kathryn vance-perez

The economy is very sick. We're losing our jobs to China to Japan to every country. We're making horrible trade deals. We…

— Donald Trump

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and…

— Steve Forbes

“King Norodom of Cambodia replied, “Lt. General Kawamura of the Japanese Imperial Army, It is my understanding that you Japanese are granting…

— Michael G. Kramer

If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

“Most of all though, Japan must not build up its military capabilities. It must, therefore, curtail large portions of its own industry,…

— Declan Hayes

In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food…

— Tristram Stuart

I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like,…

— Patrick Stump

One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself,…

— Pico Iyer

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a…

— Henry L. Stimson

[After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in…

— Dennis Hopper

I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years…

— Jaime Pressly

In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We…

— Shinzo Abe

“A woman was bargaining with the gardener for a piece of vine, half as big as her finger, for her miniature Japanese…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in…

— Cynthia Breazeal

Nuclear is the single greatest threat. Just to go down the list, we defend Japan, we defend Germany, we defend South Korea,…

— Donald Trump

“Lacy little green fronds waved up through clear liquid; it reminded me of a forest stream in early spring, just after the…

— Ruth Reichl