Haruki Murakami Quotes

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

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• The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Same
  • Influence

• Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Right
  • Spring
  • Determination

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Goals

• I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Poetry
  • Admired
  • Peasants

• When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Feel
  • Marine

• Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Study
  • Own
  • Corruption

• My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Taught

• I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Think
  • Government
  • Balance

• People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • People

• I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Famous

• My parents are refugees from Vietnam, so they didn't grow up with 'Star Wars.' I don't think they know what's going on in the movie at any given time.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

  

  Frank Woolley
  • Great
  • Believe

• I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Why
  • English
  • Fire

• I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

  

  Ji-Hae Park
  • Happy
  • Today
  • Depression

• If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

  

  Penelope Fitzgerald
  • True

• I like doing thrillers.

  

  Frank Peretti

• Pearls mean tears.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Tears

• I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution to the fabric of American life. But...under the pressures we face today, we can't afford to lose control of our borders, or to take on new financial burdens, at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care, and the education of our own people. Therefore, immigration must be a priority for this administration.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Jobs
  • Health care
  • Immigrants

• There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Political
  • Attitude
  • Financial

• How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Reality
  • Lying
  • Achieve

• The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

  

  Matthew Simpson

• Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Assumption
  • Predicted
  • Human activities