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Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs

Understand, Study, Until

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Live, America, United

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
Paul McCartney

Nothing, Leave, Days

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.
Ang Lee

Good, Truth, War

I really love traveling to Japan.
Christina Aguilera

Love, Traveling

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.
Cher

Time, Great, Christmas

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

Someone, Him, Sign

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
Bill Murray

Time, Help, Nothing

My clothes are very popular in Japan.
Vivienne Westwood

Popular, Clothes

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
Dan Quayle

Important, Two, United

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Story, Actually, Hand

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.
David Cameron

Single, Free, Europe

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
Arthur Erickson

Behind, Europe, Industry

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
Arthur Erickson

Europe, Lightness

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
Arthur Erickson

Understand, Find, Difficult

I play a nobody in Japan.
Jackie Chan

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
Tadao Ando

Nature, Live, Unique

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
Haruki Murakami

Hard, Individual

Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.
Shaun White

Love, Home, Travel

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.
Shaun White

Kid, Average, Autographs

In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!
Glenn Danzig

Crazy, Weather, Next

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
Billy Connolly

Place, Wanted, Child

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.
Britney Spears

Wanted, Fish, Simply

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.
Junot Diaz

Love, Diet, Sense

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.
Dan Rather

Busy, Political, Spring

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.
Carlos Ghosn

Problems, Answer, China

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Health, Problems, Actually

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
Henry A. Wallace

Struggle, Democracy, Fighting

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.
Haruki Murakami

Live, Easy, Since

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Work, Done, America

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