Haruki Murakami Quotes
We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
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I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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One of my favorite guys when I was young... I've always loved Bill Cosby. I've always wanted to direct him in something.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
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Just as we send young American Jews to Israel through the Birthright program, we need to also consider a 'reverse Birthright' for Israeli kids to come see America.
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you're supposed to go and out and burn your city, my mom made me go to 'Cirque du Soleil.' I was kicking and screaming. This girl came out onstage, and I was instantly mesmerized. I dropped out of school and became obsessed with her. I saw the show, like, 70 times.
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We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
