Haruki Murakami Quotes

The world is an inherently unfair place.

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• I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Respect
  • Day

• I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Fun
  • Designer
  • Costume

• I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Air
  • Hot
  • Streets

• Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Adolescence

• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Freedom
  • You
  • Clever

• The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Time
  • Know
  • Win

• It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Me
  • Choices
  • Consequences

• When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Style

• If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • House
  • Nice

• We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Women
  • Black
  • Study

• Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self?

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Car

• A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Past

• All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

  

  Chauncey Wright
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Control

• I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing your true self. I think a lot of us learn that, and it actually may be true.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • May
  • True
  • Age

• You've got to give away what you love.

  

  Charlie Trotter

• There's not a lot of positive role models of women in newspapers and magazines. I think it puts pressure on girls. They think that the image put out, it's the way you have to look.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Women
  • Positive

• I think our Founding Fathers, they would disagree, but they weren't disagreeable. They didn't hate each other; they didn't want to kill each other off.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Sr.
  • Hate

• Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Write

• ..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation..

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Society
  • Painting

• I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.

  

  James Purefoy
  • World
  • Believe
  • Interesting

• As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.

  

  Ash Koosha
  • Environment
  • Choices
  • Location

• The world is an inherently unfair place.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • World