Haruki Murakami Quotes

If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

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• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Like
  • Movies
  • Humor

• First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Work
  • Books
  • Designer

• I wanted to go to college and play football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • College
  • Play
  • Football

• When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Great
  • Movies
  • Guilty

• RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Change

• I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Think
  • Me
  • Like

• Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Up
  • Good
  • Cool

• I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Know
  • Fight
  • Adversity

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Done
  • Know
  • Bread

• It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that bioluminescence plays in those ecosystems.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Understand
  • Need
  • Ocean

• I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • City
  • Amazing

• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

  

  E. B. White
  • Power
  • Age
  • Man

• For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Chance

• Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Play
  • Competition
  • Golf

• I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Done
  • Justice
  • I Can

• I want to play until the end.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Want
  • Play
  • End

• I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Real
  • Want
  • Artist

• I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Want
  • Me
  • Save

• One thing I have noticed is that when you're a younger editor, you're more intense about it. As you go along, you relax a little. More and more, I feel that the book is the author's. You give the author your thoughts, and it's up to him or her to decide what to do.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • Up
  • Book
  • Thoughts

• We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • World
  • War
  • Ready

• No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Soul
  • Christian

• If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Want
  • Relax