Haruki Murakami Quotes

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

Haruki Murakami

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Problem

• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Life
  • World
  • Impossible

• I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Black
  • Wisdom

• I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Family

• Know today that God approves of you. He's pleased with you. He may not always be pleased with your choices or some of the things you do, but when God looks at you, He sees His amazing creation.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • May
  • Today

• I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Success
  • Key
  • Key To Success

• There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Success
  • Universe

• Physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Book
  • Nature

• For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

  

  Aristotle
  • Poetry
  • Purposes
  • Convincing

• I think 'Interscope' always puts the artist first, and they're focusing on these artists' development. I felt like that was a part of my career that I kind of needed to focus on after having come from the radio and getting exposure that way. I wanted to grow my brand and grow my fanbase, and they have proven to be the best fit for that.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Career
  • Focus

• I have a team around me to support me.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Team
  • Support

• I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.

  

  Janice Hahn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Beginning

• I think the Internet is a huge positive.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Positive

• My court skills may have atrophied.

  

  David E. Kelley
  • May

• There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Life
  • Struggle

• For some reason there's this myth that creativity - especially in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

  

  Hilary Mantel

• Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

  

  Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • People
  • Trying
  • Experience

• The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • People
  • Religion
  • Afraid

• Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

  

  Socrates
  • Truth
  • Death
  • View

• I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Death
  • Afraid
  • Shakespeare