Haruki Murakami Quotes

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

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• Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Real
  • Home
  • Night

• Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Help
  • Mission
  • Founders

• To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• It's hard to be serious in life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Serious
  • Hard

• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • Power
  • Giving

• It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • Hair

• In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.

  

  Washed Out
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Nostalgia

• I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • House
  • Parents

• Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Control

• Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Happy
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• A great Dermalogica facial every few weeks, and lots of sleep over the weekend are essentials. I also drink lots of water which really helps to hydrate the skin and keep it looking fresh.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Great
  • Water
  • Sleep

• It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in 'Trainspotting,' but it's been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don't want my brain to implode.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Stop

• I don't like to look a man in the eye.

  

  Lech Walesa

• The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep.

  

  Jaime Pressly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I hear good things about Xbox Live from some of my younger teammates. I think it would be fun to be able to challenge fans all over the world. It would be cool to be able to play some of my friends back home in the States. I'm looking forward to trying it.

  

  Claudio Reyna
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.

  

  Bridgette Wilson
  • Life
  • Done
  • Crazy

• I dress some of the most successful women in the world, and meeting these women rubs off on you. A few years ago, the woman was someone I imagined in my head. Now they're real. It's important my work evolve along with me and that I show more facets of myself.

  

  Jason Wu
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal

• This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The simplest case, where one is informed that a cat is black because it is black, may be harmless, though irritating and useless; but the actual cases in statements of evolutionary theory are always harder to detect than this, and may darken counsel for a long time.

  

  Norman Macbeth
  • Black
  • Cat
  • Case

• It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Learn