Japanese Quotes

• 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

• I collect robots. They're mainly Japanese, American, and especially Russian - small robots, big robots, and old toy robots made between 1910 and the Fifties.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • American
  • Small
  • Japanese

• I love Shogun world. It's so beautiful. The performances are beautiful. It's like classic Japanese cinema, with a little 'Westworld' twist.

  

  Luke Hemsworth
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Japanese

• Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Baby

• 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

• When you're a model, you learn how to make the most of your assets - in my case, the smallish behind that is the legacy of my half-Japanese heritage.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Model
  • Legacy
  • Japanese

• 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

• I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Car
  • Understand
  • Radio

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Japanese
  • Sensibility

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

  

  Rinko Kikuchi
  • Honest
  • Emotions
  • Japanese

• 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

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

  

  Minoru Yamasaki
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

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

  

  Mirai Nagasu
  • Japanese
  • Complain

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