Haruki Murakami Quotes
Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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Upsi is definitely the more romantic of the two. I am more laid back. We do have our differences of opinion sometimes. Upsi is always the first one to break the ice after an argument or a difference of opinion. That's what I love most about her.
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My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
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Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.
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There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
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The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.
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Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.
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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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There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
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I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.
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Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.
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The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
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Men don't want to be confused by the facts when their minds are already made up. Women know the art of negotiation - just ask the mother of a four-year-old who refuses to eat his veggies or the parent of a teenager.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation
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Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?
