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I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers. -- Milla Jovovich
The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated. -- Lester Cole
I'm totally addicted to Japanese anime and spend way, way, way too much time watching it. -- Connor Jessup
We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there. -- Trip Hawkins
I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty. -- Dakota Fanning
Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher! -- Masaharu Morimoto
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore. -- Thomas Keller
The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era. -- Rand Paul
I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it. -- David Chang
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. -- Joseph Rotblat
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do. -- Soichiro Honda
I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized. -- Toni Collette
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. -- Tadao Ando
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports. -- Simon Mainwaring
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. -- Abdul Kalam
There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another. -- Henry L. Stimson
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. -- John Roberts
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. -- J. Carter Brown
Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what. -- Shinzo Abe
Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture. -- Apolo Ohno
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 by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war. -- Dana Rohrabacher
Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most. -- Roman Coppola
The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. -- Homaro Cantu
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant. -- Masaharu Morimoto
I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food. -- Hugh Jackman
I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, 'What in the world do I have to complain about?' -- Scott Fujita
I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers. -- Oriana Fallaci
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. -- Matsuo Bash?Creating
My life was very Japanese. -- Bryan Clay
Japanese is a very difficult language. -- David Anders
The Japanese are hard to figure out. -- Jerry Garcia
How could they possibly be Japanese planes? -- Husband E. Kimmel
The Japanese fans always send weird things. -- Tom Felton
I've always been inspired by Japanese style. -- Rihanna
We must not again underestimate the Japanese. -- Chester W. Nimitz
Japanese food makes me feel particularly good. -- David Mitchell
I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics. -- Yoko Ono
Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality. -- Tadashi Yanai
I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines. -- Eva Herzigova
I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria. -- Tadashi Yanai
European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race. -- Bertrand Russell
My parents never understood me; they were Japanese. -- Chic Murray
I've always loved Japanese legend, anime and manga. -- Lauren Beukes
There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry. -- Robert Bly
The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience. -- Herb Alpert
I believe, the Japanese film industry must be open. -- Hiroyuki Sanada
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late. -- Utada Hikaru
I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general. -- Grimes
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. -- Gordon Sinclair
Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen. -- Karl Lagerfeld
EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context -- Kengo Kuma
I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people. -- John Roos
My brother then bought 1000 Japanese cameras. They all go, "Crick". -- Henny Youngman
Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting. -- Will Hobbs
Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people. -- Isamu Akasaki
The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4. -- Jack Adams
What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing. -- Robert Bly
The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs. -- Jerome Cady
My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it. -- Nagisa Oshima
Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall. -- Joseph Jarman
What do Japanese Jews love to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire. -- Pat Morita
I know karate, and like two other Japanese words - T-SHIRT -- Darynda Jones
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. -- Paul Watson
I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans. -- Jamie Bell
They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise. -- Ron Atkinson
Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. -- John Badham
What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? -- Winston Churchill
I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp. -- Wolfgang Puck
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. -- Minoru Yamasaki
I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin. -- Nicola Formichetti
I look like I'm Chinese or Thai or Japanese - very different. -- Mary Kom
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. -- Paul Theroux
I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin." -- Nicola Formichetti
Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported. -- Jack Adams
Believe it or not, Japanese is actually easier than some European languages! -- Phil Collins
Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up. -- Hiroo Onoda
Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes. -- Akio Morita
One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8". -- Georges St-Pierre
Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep. -- Utada Hikaru
He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football -- Alex Ferguson
If the Japanese are so smart, why do they eat with sticks? -- Jerry Lawler
In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. -- Masa Takayama
In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies. -- Jack Adams
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. -- Henry Rollins
I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient. -- Masaharu Morimoto
Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road. -- Chiang Kai-shek
They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years. -- Paul Watson
The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had. -- David Rockefeller
Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese. -- Paul Watson
I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with. -- Corey Haim
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. -- Stephen Gardiner
Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese. -- Peter Drucker
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? -- Walter F. Mondale
Another dynamic of this last year was our increased penetration into the Japanese market. -- David Milne
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. -- Simon Hoggart
England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French. -- Eva Green
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. -- Stephen Gardiner
A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity. -- Isaac Mizrahi
I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front. -- Henry L. Stimson
I collect wrestling figures from overseas, like Japanese wrestling figures and Mexican wrestling figures. -- Joseph Bruce
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell! -- William Halsey
My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well. -- Steven Seagal
I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema. -- Leslie Caron
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb -- Stephen King
The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent. -- Pat Morita
Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. -- Michael Pollan
I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states. -- Joseph Stalin
We've seen the volatility at dollar-yen, U.S. Treasurys, JGBs (Japanese government bonds), German bunds. -- Jamie Dimon
Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese. -- Henry L. Stimson
Aikido is not ultimately Japanese: It is an art of universal truth and international significance. -- Linda Holiday
My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand. -- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary. -- Carlos Ghosn
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. -- Tadao Ando
The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster. -- Paul Smith
Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. -- Lexa Doig

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