Quotes About Okinawa

#1. I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay and The Rebel. I was an eighteen-year-old kid. I hated myself. I hated my life. I thought nobody wanted me.

Sam Hamill

#2. I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

Mel Tillis

#3. I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.

Howard Baker

#4. Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

Michael Pollan

#5. Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, 'See any familiar faces?' She pointed out various kids and replied, 'Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.' For military dependents school is literally a non-stop revolving door of old and new friends.

Tucker Elliot

#6. A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world ... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

S. Jay Olshansky

#7. Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile - Kamada Nakasato, 102-y/o-female fr. Okinawa

Dan Buettner

#8. The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

Ed Royce

#9. If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America.

Happy Chandler

#10. I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology - and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for.

Tim Hunt

#11. Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.

Yoshihiko Noda

#12. The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

Eisaku Sato

#13. Karate without heart is just A corpse

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#14. Whether I felt strong and courageous or not, I would now have to be for my baby boy.

Abeba Habtu

#15. Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#16. Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#17. A true martial artist welcomes change; He is A catalyst, A cause, A force of nature

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#18. I'm so tired ... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.

Steven Wright

#19. Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.

Michelle Rodriguez

#20. If Canada were really that great, it would be a state.

Daniel Tosh

#21. The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#22. Real Martial Arts is Mathematics, Physics, Poetry; Meditation in Action

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#23. If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'

Josh Gad

#24. The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters have a lot on their shoulders and are often trying to survive in some very difficult and hostile environments.

Jaime Murray

#25. . . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the "4 C's" : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#26. You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.

Jim Butcher

#27. A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#28. The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#29. Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#30. A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

Soke Behzad Ahmadi