Takayama Quotes & Sayings

In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. — Masa Takayama

Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different." — David Fincher

I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid. — Masa Takayama

You see the clouds in the sky? I made that with Vapr! — Cyril Takayama

I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium. — Masa Takayama

Every time our great Country has been critically challenged either by dictators or terrorists, we as a Country have put aside our personal agendas and focused on doing what we need to do to win when threatened. — George M. Gilbert

Boy, you resolve not to go down the path of a Dark Lord and the universe starts messing with you the instant the Hat comes off your head. Some days it just doesn't pay to fight destiny. Maybe I'll wait until tomorrow to start on my resolution to not be a Dark Lord. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

We are akin to the inhabitants of a small isolated island who have just invented the first boat, and are about to set sail without a map or even a destination. Indeed, we are in a somewhat worse condition. The inhabitants of our imaginary island are at least aware that they occupy just a small space within a large and mysterious sea. We on the other hand fail to appreciate that we are living on a tiny island of consciousness within a perhaps limitless ocean of alien mental states. Just — Yuval Noah Harari

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from Childhood. — Grace Slick

In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent. — Derek Walcott

We read to know we are not alone. — C.S. Lewis

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary. — Harvey Korman

So I got stuck doing make-up work during spring vacation. ...I guess things could have gotten worse. But I wasn't there to visit."
-Tokidoki — Shinobu Takayama

I want to know what my food has been eating. — Masa Takayama

When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality. — James Dyson

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. — Masa Takayama

How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating. — Kiyoshi Takayama

never use sarcasm in an email — Matthew Lasar

Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive. — Masa Takayama