Haruki Murakami Quotes

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

Haruki Murakami

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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Think
  • Gay

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Religion

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Long
  • School
  • I Can

• A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Good
  • Great
  • Player

• Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Mistake
  • Spokesman
  • Crackpot

• What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• No one man is superior to the game.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Game
  • Man
  • Superior

• I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Good
  • Thoughts

• The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Home
  • Peace

• The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Day

• My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Goal
  • Gold
  • Still

• When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Doing
  • Laugh
  • Stereotypes

• If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Long
  • Control
  • Myself

• O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Crazy

• They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up

• Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Intelligent

• The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Father
  • Responsibility

• I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • People

• I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Power
  • Difference
  • Dumb

• I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Lose

• My medium is music, but my goal is to motivate people to dream.

  

  J Balvin
  • People
  • Music
  • Dream

• Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Flight