Haruki Murakami Quotes

I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

Haruki Murakami

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Church
  • Ignorance

• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Silence
  • Dawn

• I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Childhood
  • Normal

• When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Golf
  • Try
  • Pressure

• Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Men
  • Mad

• As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • True
  • Education
  • Criticism

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Development
  • Economic
  • Islam

• Makeup can help you capture a moment.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Help
  • Moment
  • Makeup

• I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Career
  • Success
  • Change

• Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Better
  • Roommates

• I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.

  

  Jack Vance

• The fact that millions of people use the term 'morality' as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Religious

• Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

  

  Livy
  • Men
  • She
  • Wish

• I wish the world was flat like the old days Then i could travel just by folding a map No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways There'd be no distance that could hold us back

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • World
  • Wish
  • Travel

• The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

  

  Aldo Leopold

• If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Know
  • Attention

• It was amazing how quickly the silence fell on the crowd. It went from being so loud that you could barely hear the guys 20 feet away on the on-deck circle, to hearing my own footsteps loud and clear as I rounded the bases…that's never happened to me before.

  

  Albert Pujols
  • Amazing
  • Silence

• I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • World
  • Upset People