Haruki Murakami Quotes

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.

Haruki Murakami

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• I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.

  

  Halsey
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Harmony

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Attitude
  • Creative
  • Haircut

• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Real
  • Know

• Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Human
  • Human Life

• What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

  

  Dale Dougherty
  • People
  • Imagine
  • Computers

• I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • City
  • Kind
  • Amazing

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Night
  • Fighting
  • Corruption

• Your pupillary muscles relax when your body gives up.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Body
  • Relax

• I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Look
  • Healthy
  • Height

• In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World

• Auch das gesteigertste psychologische Verstehen ist kein liebendes Verstehen.

  

  Karl Jaspers

• Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

  

  Aeschylus
  • Done

• Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • History
  • Hand

• The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Relationship

• I'm a big breakfast person: Eggs, bacon and yogurt is my go-to meal before a round. On the course, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches are great for energy, but a protein bar works, too.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Breakfast

• Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Time
  • Masters
  • Footsteps

• Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.

  

  Chris Milk
  • World
  • Real
  • Soul

• I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Soul
  • Bird

• My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Want
  • Sin
  • Paint

• I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Dark

• Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Soul
  • System
  • Possesses