Haruki Murakami Quotes

The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.

Haruki Murakami

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• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • American
  • Positive

• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Career
  • Interested

• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Kids
  • Me

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Morning
  • Three
  • Ship

• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

  Gary Jennings
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • You
  • Jeans

• The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • War

• If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Bad

• 'When you think about it from a native plant perspective,' Oyster says.'Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Perspective
  • Plant

• German law takes precedence over sharia. The full face veil should be banned, wherever legally possible.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Law
  • German

• Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you've been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn't go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Up
  • Trying

• There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Small

• White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.

  

  James A. Forbes
  • Faith

• And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Home
  • Stop
  • Sea

• I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • World
  • Good
  • Champion

• Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Guy
  • Fighting
  • Determination

• My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture.

  

  Chris Rock
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Money

• It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Good
  • Women
  • Help

• We don’t aspire to genetic unity, no matter what your propagandists think. The pursuit of optima leads only to local minima. We honour our errors. We actively seek persistent disequilibrium.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Unity

• Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Certain
  • Theory

• The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.

  

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