Haruki Murakami Quotes

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

Haruki Murakami

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• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Work
  • Respect

• I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Character
  • Play
  • Doubt

• There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Broken
  • Laws

• Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Never
  • Laws
  • Take

• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Dog
  • Judge

• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Play
  • Model

• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Health
  • Government
  • Economy

• I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Think
  • Words

• I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Moments
  • Evolution
  • Image

• I ain't no Kennedy, I ain't no Diddy Combs, I ain't no Jay Z, I ain't got it like them.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Like
  • Got
  • Jay

• You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Real
  • She
  • You

• Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Fear
  • Boy
  • Thought

• Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Words
  • Simple
  • Present

• The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

  

  Ken Adam
  • Imagination

• A man's face is not a rich person's lawn; you are wasting resources if you devote that much energy to trimming your beard, sideburns, or mustache just so. Nor is a man's face the woods; there need not be the tangled weeds, shrubbery, and wildlife/eggs benedict that get ensnared in them.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Energy
  • Tangled

• We've found that employees who live full, happy lives tend to be the most effective contributors.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Live
  • Happy

• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Patience

• I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • People
  • Life
  • Anxiety

• Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Life

• Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Small

• If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Business
  • American

• Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Life
  • Lose
  • Means