Haruki Murakami Quotes

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Haruki Murakami

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• Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Fear
  • Kind
  • Born

• There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Myself
  • Makeup

• I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • World
  • Politics
  • Start

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Remember

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• My goal in boxing is to be the best.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Best
  • Goal
  • Boxing

• As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Help
  • Best
  • Shopping

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Wind

• Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Great

• To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Justice
  • Sacrifice
  • Farmer

• I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

  

  Anand Giridharadas

• I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Life
  • Work

• I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

  

  Audrey MacLean
  • Time

• No one wants perfection. I want a confident, smart guy, obviously, but what's hot is a guy who doesn't have all the answers. We gals like a guy we can help because, ultimately, we like being needed.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Smart

• The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Selfish

• I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Dark

• I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at all, kind of for the first time.

  

  Anna Faris
  • Time
  • College
  • Drama

• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Friends
  • Rather
  • Million

• 'A methodical people,' pulsed the voice of Kesa Khan. 'They call themselves civilized because they can build tall castles and pitch their tents with geometric precision, but from here you can see the reality. Ants build in the same way. Are they civilized?'

  

  David Gemmell
  • People
  • Reality

• The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reality
  • Imagine