Haruki Murakami Quotes

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

Haruki Murakami

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• Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Love
  • Water
  • For Him

• Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Change
  • Best

• The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Young
  • Won
  • Claim

• I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • You
  • Ice

• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Music
  • True
  • Walking

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Important
  • Play

• I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Dad

• We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Option
  • Credit
  • Calling

• I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.

  

  Gary Speed
  • City
  • Fans
  • Playing

• This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Children
  • Purpose

• People would ask me, 'what do you want to be when you're older?' and I'd be like, 'a singer', and they'd be like, 'what do you really want to be?' and I'd be like, 'oh, I really want to be a singer.'

  

  Leona Lewis
  • People

• I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Unique

• I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • World
  • Great
  • Night

• Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

  

  Jerry Ferrara
  • Real
  • Character
  • Small

• Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

  

  Fred Barnes
  • People
  • Up
  • Strong

• The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Industry
  • Publishing

• If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Different
  • Die
  • Hero

• Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Proud

• I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Travel
  • No Matter
  • Get Away