Chuichi Nagumo quotes

“I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.”
-- Chuichi Nagumo

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“The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.”
-- Chuichi Nagumo

Source : "American Caesar". Book by William Manchester, p. 195, 1978.

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“I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake.”
-- Chuichi Nagumo

Source : "The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire". Book by David H James, p. 12, 1962.

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“I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.”

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“They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.”

“If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.”

“The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.”

“In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.”

“Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.”

“Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.”

“The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.”

Source : Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

“I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.”