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Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Win
Victory
Will
Military
Final
Unless
More
Put
Operations
Very
Efforts
Planning
Hard
Preparations
Based
I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound - because I refuse to have my arm amputated - or I recover from it and continue being a soldier. I have a one-in-two chance, and I shall bet my life on it!
Isoroku Yamamoto
Life
War
Great
My Life
Ambition
Soldier
Entered
Wound
Bet
Shall
Recover
Arm
Because
Becoming
Continue
Die
Going
Refuse
Being
Either
Naval
Navy
Amputated
Chance
If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so... massive sea-borne supplies might be momentarily interrupted.
Isoroku Yamamoto
War
Strength
Will
States
Out
Put
Supplies
Massive
Operations
Breaks
Might
Momentarily
Navy
United
United States
Interrupted
As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties.
Isoroku Yamamoto
War
Great
Will
Long
Exhausted
Fighting
Difficulties
Our
Several
States
Favor
Only
Never
Never Stop
Tides
Arms
Continue
Years
Replaced
Stop
Which
United
United States
Consequence
Damaged
I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Regret
Once
Must
Sunk
She
Heartfelt
Order
Captain
Now
I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.
Issey Miyake
Life
Style
Aesthetic
Create
Fashionable
Based
There are no boundaries for what can be fabric.
Issey Miyake
No Boundaries
Fabric
Boundaries
Clothing is the closest thing to all humans.
Issey Miyake
Closest
Closest Thing
Clothing
Thing
Humans
I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.
Issey Miyake
Fashion
People
Clothes
Top
For The People
French
Make
Became
Tradition
Fashion Designer
Designer
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake
Life
Design
Philosophy
Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.
Issey Miyake
Joy
Beauty
Think
Destroyed
Created
Things
Bring
To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.
Issey Miyake
You
First
To Be Honest
Research
Think
Machines
Possibility
Find
Something
Never
Longer
Make
Forgotten
Happen
Not Interested
Interested
Should
Used
Many
Things
Things Happen
Honest
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
Issey Miyake
About
Atomic
Atomic Bomb
Always
Hiroshima
Questions
Labelled
Survived
Did
Want
Avoided
Who
Therefore
Bomb
Designer
Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.
Issey Miyake
Work
Feeling
Sense
Reciprocated
Frank
Only
Adventure
Also
Understood
His
Translated
Fun
Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
Issey Miyake
Well
Doing
Clothing
Really
Sculpture
Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.
Issey Miyake
Change
First
Other
Ways
Those
Alive
Hats
Something
Step
New
Make
First Step
Course
Shirts
Dye
Anything
Process
Cut
Use
Many
Buttons
Socks
I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.
Issey Miyake
Made
Clothes
Dancers
Had
Liked
Sent
Chose
I have worked with several dance companies.
Issey Miyake
Dance
Several
Worked
Companies
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Issey Miyake
Work
Technology
Try
High
Touch
Computers
Put
Always
Hand
Even
By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.
Issey Miyake
Monroe
Way
Size
Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Issey Miyake
Life
Art
Great
Great Thing
Artists
Clothing
Happening
Body
Figure
Using
Now
Thing
I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.
Issey Miyake
Political
Kind
Never
Involved
Been
Political Movement
Any
Movement
I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.
Issey Miyake
People
World
Worn
Always
Making
Real
Clothing
The Real World
Real World
Interested
We have to keep a very tight check on quality.
Issey Miyake
Quality
Check
Tight
Very
Keep
I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people.
Issey Miyake
Fashion
Respect
Age
Women
People
Men
Men And Women
Lose
Energy
Think
Those
Proud
Forgot
Who
My design is no design.
Issey Miyake
Design
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