Haruki Murakami Quotes

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

Haruki Murakami

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• I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Friends
  • Common
  • Fast

• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Best
  • Moment

• Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Stop
  • Election
  • Taxes

• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Really
  • Active
  • Percent

• I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • American
  • Stop

• I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Up
  • Want
  • Grow

• I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.

  

  Lara Jean Chorostecki
  • Fear
  • Growing
  • Know

• Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Up
  • Today
  • Nothing

• The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

  

  Ice T
  • Way
  • Best
  • Listen

• There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Thinking
  • American

• It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Mortal
  • Despairing

• I don't really write all that well with others.

  

  Washed Out
  • Write
  • Well
  • Others

• I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Single

• I'm definitely low maintenance, but I do have a lot of massages, and I have this girl who comes to my house to do my nails. My friends will come over ,and we'll all get our nails done or have waxes.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Done
  • Friends
  • House

• I kind of love going to weddings - it's a guilty pleasure. I've never been the wedding-y type girl dreaming about the big day, the dress, but I always cry. Always. Even if I don't know the bride that well, I'm verklempt!

  

  Alison Brie
  • Girl
  • Guilty
  • Wedding

• There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• I can read and arrange, but I can't write.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Write
  • Read
  • Arrange

• Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Friends
  • Choose
  • Imperfect Men