Haruki Murakami Quotes
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
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Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
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I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.
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History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
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If you come up to me in the street, I am going to be delighted to meet you. I became a television star to entertain people, to spread goodness into the world.
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Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
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Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
