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Quotes by Japanese Authors
"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."
"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."
"In everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive."
"I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry."
"The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination."
"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."
"Are there any capitalist cats?" Nakata asked."
"Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair."
"India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology."
"And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."
"What happens in you is more important than what happens to you."
"Your mentality sets the stage for your prosperity."
"You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you're living a different kind of life there. In a world that's inside you."
"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was."
"I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept."
"The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach."
"We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce."
"For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation."
"Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments."
"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."
"I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really."
"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon."
"Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark, leave a positive legacy!"
"Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness."
"To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny."
"In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be."
"The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects."
"It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit."
"The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic."
"There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do."
"I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world."
"The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s."
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