Haruki Murakami Quotes

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

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• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Generation
  • Own

• Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Love
  • Person
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• An outsider's point of view is always handy.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Point
  • View
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• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Science
  • Fashion
  • Myself

• I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
  • Hard
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• 'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Know
  • Bizarre

• When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Bad
  • Fashion
  • Politics

• I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Life
  • True
  • Beautiful

• I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

• You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

  

  Dogen
  • Mother
  • Study

• I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Technology

• Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Action
  • Tears

• Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Up
  • Music
  • Fun

• If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.

  

  James Marsden
  • Career
  • Choices

• As a visible and outspoken trans woman myself, I know that it's rare not to have your trans-ness lead the way for you in public spaces.

  

  Janet Mock

• The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

  

  Jayne Ann Krentz
  • World
  • Long
  • Science

• I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.

  

  Kyle Abraham
  • People
  • Work
  • Decision

• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Question
  • Entity
  • Metaphysical