Tatemae Quotes

#1. But in Japan, there are two very specific words to define these selves: tatemae, or the presentation of your public self, and honne, how you really feel.

Roland Kelts

#2. Tatemae is a charming attitude when it means that everyone should look at the other way at a guest's faux pas in the tearoom; it has dangerous and unpredictable results when applied to corporate balance sheets, drug testing, and nuclear-power safety reports.

Alex Kerr

#3. The sun, sides bulging, squashed itself between two hills. It sent up a flare of golden light. The sky, patterned with a million tiny clouds like fish scales was illuminated.

Karen Foxlee

#4. Different reasons roused different peoples to leave their homes; but this at least is clear, nothing has stayed where it was born. The human race is always on the move:

Seneca.

#5. I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.

Stephen Dorff

#6. This process of cutting a potential wife from the herd was proving far more difficult than he'd thought.

Debra Holland

#7. I still have some very dear friends from school, and we get together whenever possible.

Dionne Warwick

#8. Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

Larry Evans

#9. Its hopeless. Thats why you cant be worried about the world. Theyll just do you in anyway. You cant depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disappear and leave you there alone.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#10. With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

Willem Dafoe

#11. I love filming in New York. I love New York movies, too. I just like it when people can take New York and make it their own, because there are so many different New Yorks.

Paul Dano

#12. You never bother me, Glory. It's remarkable how much you don't bother me. Almost unprecedented.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. There is no known device for artistic contraception.

Daniel J. Boorstin