All Quotes

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
‐‐ Bob Beamon

In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people.
‐‐ Michael Franti

In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
‐‐ Damian Marley

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
‐‐ Peter Blair Henry

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
‐‐ Mike Crapo

In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the night between Waterloo and Sherborne. Stars on each side of me; I ran from side to side of the carriage, checking the constellations.
‐‐ Louis MacNeice

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
‐‐ Gyorgy Ligeti

In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life one must be able to prove that they have been using that alternative name elsewhere, either on the Web or in real life.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart on Crime initiative.
‐‐ Eric Holder

In January 2013, one could buy a Bitcoin for about $13. By late November, one Bitcoin would have set a buyer back over $1100.
‐‐ Steve Hanke

In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
‐‐ Ted Shackelford

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
‐‐ Jack Irons

In January of 2009, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay within a year's time, vowing to continue to fight terror but 'in a manner that is consistent with our values and ideals.' A plan was considered to move a number of detainees to stateside prisons in order to have them stand trial in civilian court.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, 'I have to buy this gift... I can't show up at this party and not have something for everybody.'
‐‐ Suze Orman

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.
‐‐ Tite Kubo

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
‐‐ Marc Newson

In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
‐‐ Natsuo Kirino

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
‐‐ Takashi Murakami

In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
‐‐ Takashi Murakami

In Japan, I have my own line of dinnerware, but I'm not aggressive about pursuing those projects.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa

In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty

In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.
‐‐ Martha Smith

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.
‐‐ Kenzaburo Oe

In Japan, more than in any other country I've ever been in, one is not supposed to write about the people in the glass bubble; that is why they are in the glass bubble.
‐‐ John Burnham Schwartz

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
‐‐ Michael Lewis

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
‐‐ Utada Hikaru

In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.
‐‐ Tristram Stuart

In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
‐‐ Naoto Kan

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It's still dangerous for me to drive. I've driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it.
‐‐ Tite Kubo

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
‐‐ Tadao Ando

In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
‐‐ Yuji Horii

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

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

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

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice.
‐‐ Guy Fieri

In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.
‐‐ Masa Takayama

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.
‐‐ Dexter Gordon