Haruki Murakami Quotes

We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.

Haruki Murakami

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• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Government
  • Christian
  • Religious

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • She
  • Better
  • Sorry

• Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Fire

• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Security
  • Calm
  • Overcome

• You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Never
  • See

• Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Long
  • Hand
  • Watch

• The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Best
  • Come
  • Migrant

• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Forty

• I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Feeling
  • Need
  • Project

• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Never

• When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Contract
  • Filming

• When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Star
  • Woman
  • Ship

• But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Down
  • Window

• I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Think
  • Years
  • Around

• For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Science

• I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Music
  • Play
  • Picture

• Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

  

  Gallagher
  • American
  • City
  • Year

• India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Country
  • India
  • Self-Esteem

• I think the beauty of the film industry is that if another person tries to become another person or act like another person or imitate another person, they don't really get too far. When that person starts to realize who they are and what they can bring to the table, they start to blossom and grow. With that, it's not so much me looking towards my predecessors who have paved the way in the industry - it's more getting inspired. I get little bits and pieces of what I can take from any and everybody.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • Trying
  • Film
  • Inspired

• We're really reducing the potential inflow, not cutting it off.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Cutting
  • Inflow
  • Cutting off

• AT&T should be required to provide a clear and straightforward system of calling time that will make it easier for our troops to call home, ... It disturbs me to think that companies are more interested in making a buck on our soldiers in Iraq than providing the quality services they have been paid to provide.

  

  Frank Pallone
  • System
  • Straightforward
  • AT&T

• We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Film
  • Wanted
  • Stopped