Famous Quotes & Sayings

Akio Morita

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

Akio Morita

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

David Milne

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

David Sylvian

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Suzuki

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

Billy Higgins

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

Bill Plympton

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Barney Frank

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

Dick Cavett

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

Carlos Ghosn

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

Carlos Ghosn

You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

Bill Maher

They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'

Bill Maher

Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she's demanding that we invade 'Tsunami.'

Ben Barnes

Half my fan mail comes from Japan.

Barry Sheene

They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

Aung San Suu Kyi

It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism ...

Bootsy Collins

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

Brian Mulroney

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

Jane Goodall

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

Tao Okamoto

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Daniel H. Wilson

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

Daniel H. Pink

It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.

She got to see some of the Japanese skaters doing quad jumps and triple Axels, and it got her motivated.

She has shown that at 36, it is not too late for a Japanese woman to get married and have a family,

Since then there's been no boycotts of Japanese products at all.

Britney Spears

I like most of the places I've been to, but I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't really like eating fish, and I know that's very popular out there in Africa, but the whole thing just doesn't appeal to me.

This says that things in Japan are on pretty solid ground.

We are going overweight in Japanese stocks, which have a strong momentum and solid fundamentals.

We are looking at tourists as gods. If Japanese people come to India, we treat them as gods.

William T. Vollmann

I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting.