Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

We wholeheartedly support the position the prime minister has taken with respect to the question of the Japanese hostages,

David Letterman

President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

Daisaku Ikeda

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

But most of the compensation suits have been rejected by the Japanese courts.

Masahiro Tanaka

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

Eddy Cue

We've known that about (400,000 to 500,000 songs) per month is what all the other online music stores in Japan have been doing. The majority of that being Mora,

Right now it's all about the speculation that Japan will end its quantitative easing.

Don DeLillo

There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.

Daniel Radcliffe

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

Daniel Boulud

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

Donald Trump

If you look at China - and frankly, Vietnam now is doing a big number, and you look at Japan and India and Mexico - Mexico's killing us at the border and they're killing us with trade.

David Chang

I love chicken. I love chicken products: fried chicken, roasted chicken, chicken nuggets - whatever. And going to Japan, I would see that these chicken were smoked and then grilled and then have this amazing crispy skin.

David Cameron

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.

Anthony Bourdain

I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

Anita Sarkeesian

The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not excuse them.

Amy Waldman

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

We are back out in Japan touring in November so providing everything is going well, we want to come back here.

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.

Barry Eisler

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

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.

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 ...

Ayumi Hamasaki

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome

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.

The only way out for Japan is to see the yen weaken.

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.

Dick Cavett

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