Quotes of: Japanese-people Keyword

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doi...

John Foster

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist's Guide to Technology and Design

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?

A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance

Often we may even smile or laugh at adversity, but all people share the same passions. They are merely manifest differently according to one's culture and conditioning.

Kamikaze: A Japanese Pilot's Own Spectacular Story of the Famous Suicide Squadrons

Hattori Hanzo: What brings you to Okinawa? The Bride: I'm here to see a man. Hattori Hanzo: Oh yeah? You have a friend living in Okinawa? The Bride: Not quite. Hattori Hanzo: Not a friend? The Bride: I've never met him. Hattori Hanzo: Never? Who is h...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Although some of the people at church rejected and even denounced me, this did not particularly hinder me in my search. Rather, the fact that there were church people as weak and foolish as I was myself gave me a deep sense of reassurance. Arrogantly...

The Wind is Howling: The Autobiography of a Japanese Novelist

The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art. When the Japanese economy went down the tubes, there was no one left to pay the prices that have been recorded for all of those...

Arne Glimcher

I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways.

David Chang

The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.

Hideki Tojo

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

Tadao Ando

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

Barney Ross

Sushi Bar Assistant: [Japanese] What'd ya want? The Bride: [English] I beg your pardon? Hattori Hanzo: [English] Oh..."drink" [makes drinking motion with hand] The Bride: [English] Oh, yes, a bottle of warm sake please. Hattori Hanzo: [English] Warm ...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, every...

John Lasseter

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist's Guide to Technology and Design

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

Dennis Banks

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.

Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . and Their Friends

All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.

Paul Watson

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Phil Collins

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

Alberto Fujimori