#tokyo

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#both #city #filthy #get #london

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa? ↗

— Marion Berry

#am #because #city #deny #i

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#cinema #festival #film #film festival #i

We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#cities #competing #copenhagen #final #great

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #before #london #long #metropolis

I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#get #happened #happening #here #i

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.' ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#air #bar #became #before #center

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#feel #four #hotel #like #morning

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness. ↗

— Franka Potente

#before #book #coming #essays #fitness

What comes from the heart will go to the heart ↗

— Renae Lucas-Hall

#japan #love-story #romance #tokyo #love