Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Clark

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

It seems to be working because we sold the series to France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Japan and Korea.

Sven Eriksson

It is still a young squad. Those who were in Japan two years ago are more experienced and they should be better.

It was always a question of 'when' Japan would turn around, not 'if' Japan would turn around.

Tadashi Yanai

Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.

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.

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.

Dick Cavett

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

Ben Barnes

Half my fan mail comes from Japan.

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.

The selling you're seeing is nearly all on the tech side, and you're seeing resilience in other parts of the market. This tells me that people aren't panicking over Japan or anything else.

Sometimes several (of us) were shooting the same Japanese fighter.Who knows which one took it down, and we just shared the result,

You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way.

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.

Barry Sheene

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

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.

Brian Mulroney

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

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.

As the judicial procedure has started in Chile, Japan would like to observe that appropriate procedures are taken.

We think long-term the Japanese market is going to be just fine.

Junichiro Koizumi

The result was more than I expected, ... The Japanese people said they wanted to keep reform, not stop reform. That was the voice of the people.

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.

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.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.

Alex Cox

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

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.