Japan Quotes - page 15

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire. (Howard Stringer)
You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice. View quote
James MacArthur
When I was in Japan with my girlfriend Jessica, she would have had acupuncture every day if she could. I can just about stomach going to a chiropractor and I visited a talented one when I was there, but when he tried a needle on me, it was horrible. My muscles tightened and it didn't work at all. View quote
Jenson Button
Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do. View quote
Jeremy Bulloch
For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper. View quote
Jim Costa
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew. View quote
John Boorman
The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined. View quote
John Bruton
European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together. View quote
John Bruton
Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now. View quote
John Zorn
I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too. View quote
Joichi Ito
It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy. (Jairam Ramesh)
If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat. View quote
James Forrestal
I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it. View quote
Ken Watanabe
Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus. View quote
Katherine Jenkins
People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it. View quote
Mark Goddard
Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore. View quote
Mark Ronson
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets. View quote
Mark Zandi
Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way. View quote
Bae Doona
In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design. View quote
Brian Wildsmith
I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all across Canada, many in the United States, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan - but not England. View quote
Brian Wildsmith
Korea taught me nothing, for no one spoke of it when I was growing up, except as something about how wonderful the girls in Japan were. Vietnam taught some of us more than we perhaps ever wished to know. (Gloria Emerson)
I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market. View quote
Laura Bailey
In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest. View quote
Martha Smith
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. View quote
Mary Ritter Beard
Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question I ask our staff is 'What is money-market-fund exposure?' View quote
Mary Schapiro