Haruki Murakami Quotes

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

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• The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Criticism
  • Old
  • Tradition

• It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Easier

• But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Family
  • Home
  • Together

• 'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Single
  • Problem

• In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Art
  • Today
  • Culture

• The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Biology

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Words
  • Magic
  • Internet

• But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Game
  • Finding
  • Literary

• I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Remember
  • Comedy

• If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Understand

• My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • World
  • History
  • Past

• We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Men
  • House
  • Health

• I listen to a lot of Solange. I love old-school as well.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • School
  • Old
  • Listen

• My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Money
  • Uncomfortable

• The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Playing
  • Greatness
  • Degree

• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Future
  • Anxiety

• There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Democracy

• I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • English
  • Literature
  • Stories

• I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

  

  Allison Anders
  • People
  • God
  • Important

• Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Words
  • Stole
  • I Wonder

• I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those things exist, but if you don't have anyone speaking anymore, those things are still there. The things that language stands for do not require humans, and in fact are often trampled down by humans.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Language
  • Humans
  • Exist

• 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.

  

  Kim Jee-woon
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Desire

• Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Distance
  • Run
  • Solve