Haruki Murakami Quotes

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

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• I'm very content.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Group

• I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Science
  • End
  • Theory

• Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Like

• I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Me
  • Unique

• I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Being

• I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Why
  • She
  • Fashion

• There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Years

• All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Learn

• We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Love
  • Perfect
  • Person

• Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Life
  • Parent

• If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Love
  • Funny
  • Woman

• The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

  

  Bono U2
  • Children
  • Priority
  • Entrepreneurs

• My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Write
  • Books
  • Priority