Haruki Murakami Quotes

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.

Haruki Murakami

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: January 12, 1949

Topics

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Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

Johann Georg Hamann

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As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

Andres Serrano

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My stepmom is one of the leading researchers on lupus in the world.

Jeff Vandermeer

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You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

Jeff Bridges

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John McCain has taken tens of millions of dollars from special interests and lobbyists in his senate and presidential campaigns. Now, we have to wonder if he will be able to remain objective on national security matters, as millions pour into his 'charity' from oppressive foreign governments.

Roger Stone

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Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them.

Mike Pompeo

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It doesn't matter if that felony happened three weeks ago or thirty-five years ago - for the rest of your life, you've got to check that box, knowing full well the odds are sky-high your application is going straight to the trash.

Michelle Alexander

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Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.

Juergen Teller

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With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are. The exercise in theater is night after night, you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore.

Julia Stiles

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Literally, 'Dance Moms' was so amazing, and I have the world to thank for that. They were so awesome - the set, the cast, the crew - it was amazing.

JoJo Siwa

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'The Philadelphia Story' is one of my favorite movies.

Christoph Waltz

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My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

Columba Bush

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