Yuan Shikai quotes

“China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.”
-- Yuan Shikai

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“I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good.”

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

Source : "Interview with Alex Cox and Tod Davies". Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

“I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.”

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”

“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

“No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.”

“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

“I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.”

“The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?”