Haruki Murakami Quotes

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

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• I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Never

• I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Change
  • inspirational

• For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Color
  • Animals

• It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beauty

• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Work
  • Children
  • Together

• Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Different
  • She
  • Song

• I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Different
  • Character
  • Worry

• Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Endure

• I'm minimalistic when it comes to makeup, so I'm a sucker for anything that's multi-tasking. Aquaphor is my go-to product. It's great for adding gloss to eyes and cheekbones, and amazing for soothing dry cuticles, too.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Great
  • Eyes
  • Amazing

• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Hate
  • Know

• Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Joy
  • Band
  • Genius

• For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Know
  • Me
  • Act

• Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Favorite

• I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Great
  • Music
  • Think

• Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Door

• An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Morning

• I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.

  

  Ara Parseghian

• When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected equally. Every action I take, I will ask myself, 'Does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson, who have as much of a right to live out their dreams as any other child America?'

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Power
  • War
  • Air

• I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • War
  • Support
  • Writer