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
• Old Woman

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• We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Always
  • Luck

• 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

• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Money
  • More
  • Ever

• Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

  

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

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Life
  • Done
  • Kids

• You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Name

• 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

• 'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'

  

  Anne Rice
  • Strong
  • Sweet

• 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 was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • Important
  • School
  • American

• I love Apple Music. I helped build Apple Music. It will always be a very, very big part of my life and part of the journey.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Life
  • Music
  • Journey

• You can't even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Feeling

• Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams. Having arrived at the land of my dreams, I found I did not know the place

  

  Keiichi Sigsawa
  • Dream
  • Knows
  • Found

• 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