Haruki Murakami Quotes

Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.

Haruki Murakami

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• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Some

• It's very liberating to cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Hair
  • Very
  • Cut

• Today, models are able to share industry news, trends, and communicate with fans through Twitter, Instagram and blogs. So in a way, our position as models is way more personable and relatable.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Today
  • Way
  • News

• Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Unique

• Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Important
  • Revolution

• To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War

• Sex is nostalgia for sex.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • Sex

• It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • True

• It was tough for me at school... trying to blend in and get along with other kids. I was an oddity and kids are scared of things they don't understand.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Trying
  • School
  • Kids

• We don't think there is any money to be made in payments anymore. The entire business model of extracting a toll or having time delays around the movement of value is going away completely.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Time
  • Money
  • Business

• Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Freedom
  • Fighting
  • Serious

• Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Courage
  • Horse

• We reflect on our successes and failures at monthly staff meetings.

  

  Charles Best

• Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage. The real contributions of economics to human welfare might turn out to be very different from what most people - even most economists - expect.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Opportunity
  • Childhood

• Bodily discomfort and emotional fear and attachment make the dying uncomfortable and fearful. So, to help those dying people, I think modern medical science has a lot of facilities to reduce pain, or perhaps not to reduce pain, but not to experience pain.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • People
  • Experience
  • Help

• We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.

  

  Lee Konitz

• Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Love
  • Infinity
  • Glimpses

• Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

  

  Martin Chalfie

• I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Giving
  • Daily

• The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Up
  • World
  • Value

• One thing is certain: That is that the power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. That is a fact.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Reality

• Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reality
  • Independent
  • Pushed