Japanese Quotes

• One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Happy
  • Thanks
  • Japanese

• Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

  

  Isamu Akasaki
  • Language
  • Strange
  • Japanese

• It's like Shelley. Like Werther. Like a Japanese Ophelia. Like a beautiful Oriental Lady in the Lake.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Beautiful
  • Japanese
  • Lake

• In the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and that represents death. There's nothing you can do to stop it, to keep yourself from dying. You can try every trick in the book and it still won't prevent it.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Movie
  • Death
  • Trick

• I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Military
  • Japanese
  • Statements

• I also have some Chinese weapons, but I like the Japanese sword the best.

  

  Kelly Hu
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese and the Europeans and the Japanese.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Chinese

• The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Death
  • Belief
  • Dishonour

• The best way to learn Japanese is to be born as a Japanese baby, in Japan, raised by a Japanese family.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Family
  • Baby
  • Japanese

• The film begins with a visual list of eight and a half Japanese Pachinko Parlours filmed in several Japanese cities - Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Japanese

• Japanese things - laquers, netsuke, prints - conjure a picture of a place where sensations are always new, where art pours out of daily life, where everything exists in a dream of endless beautiful flow.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Dream
  • Sensations
  • Daily Life

• I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Japanese
  • Sensibility

• I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Japanese
  • Interviews

• Unlike in the 1980s and 1990s, this time the Japanese are going to be more circumspect and invest in their end markets, which would include Europe and the United States.

  

  Arjuna Mahendran
  • Japanese
  • Invest
  • Markets

• We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Knowledge
  • System
  • Baristu

• We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.

  

  Rinko Kikuchi
  • Honest
  • Emotions
  • Japanese

• Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

  

  Minoru Yamasaki
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Gods
  • Japanese
  • World War II

• Japanese people, they're not really one to complain.

  

  Mirai Nagasu
  • Japanese
  • Complain

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