Japan Quotes - page 4

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema. (Leslie Caron)
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture. View quote
Marc Newson
I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important. View quote
Marcel Carne
So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio. View quote
Matthew Sweet
When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me. View quote
Matthew Sweet
They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here. View quote
Michael D. Barnes
Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks. View quote
Michael K. Simpson
My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea. View quote
Mike Johanns
Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in. View quote
Mike Rogers
However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan. View quote
Nobuo Uematsu
And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries. (Nobuo Uematsu)
Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough. View quote
Norman Granz
I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all. View quote
Nancy Sinatra
It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power. View quote
Naoto Kan
To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan. View quote
Narada Michael Walden
The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape. View quote
Owen Hart
Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself. View quote
Picabo Street
Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as 'the dancing mushroom.' According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate. View quote
Paul Stamets
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. View quote
Roman Coppola
Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation. View quote
Ron Kind
For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts. (Randy Neugebauer)
The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market. View quote
Randy Neugebauer
I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything. View quote
Sessue Hayakawa
There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers. View quote
Shigeru Yoshida
I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan. View quote
Shigeru Yoshida