Haruki Murakami Quotes

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

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• Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • House
  • Picture
  • Unique

• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Career
  • Mom
  • Moral

• I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Life
  • Great
  • Husband

• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Humanity
  • Actions
  • Allow

• Kante is a good player. For me, it is good because he speaks French. We know he is a fantastic player; he runs a lot and works for the team.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Team
  • Player
  • Works

• When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movies
  • Lifetime
  • Aim

• Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Children
  • Marriage
  • Presence

• History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • History
  • Man

• It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Culture
  • Wisdom

• Ammu had an elaborate Calcutta wedding. Later, looking back on the day, Ammu realized that the slightest feverish glitter in her bridegroom's eyes had not been love, or even excitement at the prospect of carnal bliss, but approximately eight large pegs of whiskey. Straight. Neat.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Eyes
  • Wedding
  • Whiskey

• It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fun

• I'm a huge salsa fan. I actually have a salsa on my album, 'Formula Vol. 2,' featuring Marc Anthony.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura

• I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

  

  Don DeLillo

• You have someone like Colin or many of the other athletes who have knelt, especially athletes of colour, and if you're not respecting what they're saying, if you're not believing their charges of police brutality or racial inequality, you're saying that they're lying.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Police

• I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy, no relationships were working, and there was something missing in my life, and you know, I was doing drag, performing and stuff, and I realized through that arc that I was much happier doing that.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Parents

• When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.

  

  Emmett Tyrrell
  • Programs
  • Liberals
  • Slogan

• That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Happy
  • Evolution