How Shinzo Abe could win the Nobel Peace Prize

June 3, 2013 5:50 pm
How Shinzo Abe could win the Nobel Peace Prize
By James Clad and Robert Manning

A grand gesture will endear Japan to its neighbours, say James Clad and Robert Manning

Shinzo Abe has summoned the ghosts of nationalism in the Pacific. Neighbouring countries are worried by the Japanese prime minister’s revisionism concerning the historical behaviour of his country. The impact of this on Sino-Japanese relations tends to receive most attention in the western media. But there is also an increasingly fractious relationship between Japan and South Korea. Here, though, Mr Abe can and should make a bold move to dramatically improve his standing and transform the region.

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Art, Anonymous

If you like a pretty girl, it's because you know and pursue beauty. That means you're a potential artist.

- An anonymous potential artist

Love, Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert from Vampire Diaries

Elena: He [Damon] told me about your ex.. Katherine?
Stefan: What did he say?
Elena: She broke your heart.
Stefan: It was a long time ago.
Elena: When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.
Stefan: Elena…
Elena: It's okay Stefan, I get it. You have no idea how much I get it. Complicated brother? Check. Complicated ex? Check. Too complicated to even contemplate dating? Check. We met and we talked and it was epic, but then the sun came up and reality set in.

- Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert from Vampire Diaries, The Night of the Comet [1.2]

Sports, Anthony Starr

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

- Antony Starr (1995- )

AFI #038 Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig from The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

[his farewell speech]
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

- Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig from The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #38 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Dream, Ray Liotta (voice) as Shoeless Joe Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)

[Shoeless Joe Jackson has asked Terence Mann to come with them to the cornfield, but Ray is upset because he wasn't invited]
Ray Kinsella: I did it all, I listened to the voices, I did what they told me, and not once did I ask what's in it for me!
Shoeless Joe Jackson: What are you saying, Ray?
Ray Kinsella: I'm saying... what's in it for me?
Shoeless Joe Jackson: Is that why you did this? For you? I think you better stay here, Ray.
...
Ray Kinsella: What are you grinning at, you ghost?
Shoeless Joe: "If you build it -" [gestures toward catcher, who is Ray's father, John Kinsella] "- he will come."
Ray : "Ease his pain. Go the distance." It was him!
Shoeless Joe: No, Ray. It was you.

- Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)

AFI #039 Ray Liotta (voice) as Shoeless Joe Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)

If you build it, he will come.

- Ray Liotta (voice) as Shoeless Joe Jackson Jackson from Field of Dreams (1989)

The bolded line is ranked #39 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Field of Dreams is a 1989 film about an Iowa corn farmer who hears a voice telling him: "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this as an instruction to build a baseball diamond in his fields; after he does, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other dead baseball players emerge from the cornfields to play ball.