"Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan."

-- Tadanobu Asano

#Country Quotes #Japan Quotes #People Quotes

“Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it”
“The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.”
“Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.”
“The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.”
“Ah, bien je prÃ©tends que les courbes des quatre areÃªtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand impression de force et de beautÃ©. Well, I think the curves of the four pillars of the monument, as the calculations have provided them, give it a great sense of force and beauty.”
“I don't really like the limelight.”
“Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.”
“When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the oceanâ€™s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.”

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