Haruki Murakami Quotes

Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

Haruki Murakami

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• Feeling
• Lies
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• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  

  Idi Amin
  • World
  • Myself
  • Powerful

• I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Work
  • Sometimes
  • Work Hard

• The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Law
  • Running
  • Effort

• Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Saying
  • Expert

• I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Age
  • Play
  • View

• I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme - if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Important

• Snapchat's the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Culture
  • Learning

• I think the larger productions in India are very methodical and pretty much on the ball in terms of work. When I say work, I mean pre-production and the homework that's required.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Glossier is not about throwing out everything you're using. If you want to keep using your retinols, your SPFs, of course you should continue.

  

  Emily Weiss

• If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

  

  Anna Seward
  • Music
  • Drawing

• I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

  

  David Wenham
  • People
  • Work

• I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

  

  Benjamin F. Wade

• There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

  

  Adrian Edmondson
  • People
  • Good

• I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.

  

  Lena Olin
  • Attention
  • Joy
  • Tree

• I'm on Twitter. I love Twitter because I'm kind of voyeuristic. I don't tweet, but I look at other people's.

  

  Max Minghella
  • People

• He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

  

  Buddha
  • People

• I think I'm close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.

  

  Arjun Rampal
  • People
  • Believe
  • Evil

• And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance.

  

  Gary Kleck
  • Mean
  • Justice
  • Demand

• I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Singing
  • Dancing
  • Hometown

• The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Lies

• I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, 'Your song's on the radio in the drafting department!'

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Time
  • Song
  • Feeling

• Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Dream
  • Feeling
  • Lies