Best Japanese Quotations
574 Japanese quotes by 418 unique authors
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I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese…
— Chuck Yeager
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It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a…
— Unknown Author
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It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah…
— S. J. Perelman
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...protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind…
— Liona Boyd
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The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories…
— Ralph Bakshi
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We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.
— Michael Hutchence
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the…
— Chester W. Nimitz
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The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.
— Henry H. Arnold
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We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.
— Lester Thurow
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
— Walter F. Mondale
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It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the…
— Henry Steele Commager
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Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.
— Marty Natalegawa
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That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange rate, the Japanese…
— Paul Volcker
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued…
— Dana Rohrabacher
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Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.
— Henry L. Stimson
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The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated…
— William D. Leahy
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The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because…
— Robert Olen Butler
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It’s just starting. I think it’s going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food,…
— Andrew Zimmern
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Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long…
— Hideki Tojo
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The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents…
— Hideki Tojo
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From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to…
— Hideki Tojo
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One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a…
— Donella Meadows
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My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize
— Michael M. Honda
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