Haruki Murakami Quotes

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.

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• I like to discover new things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • New
  • New Things

• My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Great
  • Done
  • Job

• A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Time
  • Long
  • Food

• For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Nobody

• I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Alive
  • Disney

• All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Religion

• When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Family
  • Day
  • Week

• Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Change
  • Green
  • Improvement

• Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • Trying
  • Today

• I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Genes

• ...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

  

  T. H. White

• I believe in order that I may understand.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Believe
  • May
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• You don't want to do anything that doesn't glorify God in every way.

  

  Kevin James
  • God
  • Want
  • Way

• I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Good
  • Kind

• For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Quality

• There are no signposts in the sea.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Choices
  • Sea
  • Signposts

• I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Ride
  • Wave
  • Takes

• As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Chinese
  • Alive
  • Tibetans

• It's clear that Planned Parenthood went out of its way to paint me as some sort of a zealot - a Trojan-horse zealot who came into Komen and within 10 to 11 months had completely turned the place upside down. That's clearly not who I am, and it's not what happened.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Horse
  • Turned
  • Parenthood

• I have never changed. I feel as young as I always did and remain close friends with Gerhard Schröder.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Feels
  • Young
  • Changed

• As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.

  

  Haruki Murakami
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