Haruki Murakami Quotes
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.Haruki Murakami
Quotes to Explore
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
Hanya Yanagihara -
As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
Kate Smith -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer -
'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
Wallace Shawn -
Care and pity are two different things.
Vince Staples -
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
Naomi Klein
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I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
Victoria Moran -
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
Caitlyn Jenner -
If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
Adam Grant -
We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.
Olivia Culpo -
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
Walter Lord -
I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
Galileo Galilei
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Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.
Algernon Charles Swinburne -
I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.
Andrea Corr -
When we do our legislation, we're not trying to figure out, 'How can I use this to run against you?' We say, 'How can we pass this bill to help both of our constituents?'
Kirsten Gillibrand -
I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.
Mark Rutte -
When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'
Ken Follett -
I don't think that the trickle-down theory of diversity ever really works.
Kimberly Bryant
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To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
Edward Zwick -
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
James Russell Lowell -
Question: Is life as difficult as it sometimes seems to be?
Prem Rawat -
I like to control my films from beginning to end, to write them the way I want.
Pawel Pawlikowski -
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
Haruki Murakami