Haruki Murakami Quotes

Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.

Haruki Murakami

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• Minority
• Societies
• Troubling

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• I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Playing
  • Train
  • Details

• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Way
  • Walking
  • Cognitive

• Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Immigration

• I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Technology
  • Film

• I always have stress.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Always
  • Stress

• I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Energy

• Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Political
  • Practice
  • Doctor

• No, but you can see it from here.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • See
  • Here
  • Can

• When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word.

  

  F. F. Bosworth
  • God
  • Faith
  • Promise

• I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Things
  • Fool
  • Consequence

• Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Eyes

• We wrote about having five kids and bringing them to church. A journalist at The Washington Post wrote this article where the headline was "The New Catholic Evangelism Of Jim Gaffigan." And it was a bit terrifying.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Kids
  • Church
  • Catholic

• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Thought
  • Educated

• I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Gymnasium
  • Resented
  • Roadwork

• Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Good
  • Faults
  • Counts

• You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• When I moved to New York, I had nothing. And a friend of mine also had nothing. And he said, 'Hey, come with me to the Marriot Marquis. And if you go to the 30th floor, and you wait by this door, and you sneak in, you can get free food.' And I did that for three years. I was prepared if anyone said, 'Can we see your room key?' to be like, 'Do you know who I am? I'm Bob Marriot's nephew.' Um, so great, I'm glad to be here and have free food again. And I didn't have to sneak in!

  

  Santino Fontana
  • Waiting
  • Moved
  • Glad

• A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.

  

  Carrie Prejean
  • Character
  • Reason
  • Audience

• Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Glad
  • Minority
  • Societies