Haruki Murakami Quotes

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

Haruki Murakami

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• Pajamas
• Washed

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• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

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• It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

  

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• I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.

  

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• If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

  

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• My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.

  

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• Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

  

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• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

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• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

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• I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

  

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• Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

  

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• Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'

  

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• I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Worry
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• I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Time
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• Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.

  

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  • People
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• Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

  

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• Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

  

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• It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.

  

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• I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)

  

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• Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass *smack* I'M YOUR SON FROM THE FUTURE!! AAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! *smack* I'M FROM THE FUTURE!! I'M YOUR SON!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAH

  

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• When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all.

  

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• Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.

  

  Haley Bennett
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• And through it all she offers me protection, a lot of love and affection whether I'm right or wrong. And down the waterfall where ever it may take me I know that life won't break me when I come to call, she won't forsake me I'm loving angels instead.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Life
  • Know
  • Protection

• If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.

  

  Swami Sivananda
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Achievement

• Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Life
  • Deal
  • Pajamas