Haruki Murakami Quotes
TYou know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.
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I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.
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If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.
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The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.
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I judge the jobs I've had in this business by the places they took me, and by that standard, there simply has been nothing to match 'The National Sports Daily.'
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I like being part of a team.
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I mix my fragrances with body oils - I love body oils, so that's my little trick.
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I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.
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Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.
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It's not just fleet of foot or speed. It's about who gets caught and gets knocked out.
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I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.
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It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.
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Carrier networks were originally built for connecting phone calls. Now they're getting swamped with bandwidth-hogging data applications. Keeping up will require huge investments. Who's going to pay for that?
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You can think of creativity as applied imagination.
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Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
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I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.
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I am from Ghana, and although Ghana is celebrated as a relatively peaceful country in a historically war-torn region, the issues of development and recovery are still apparent.
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Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.
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TYou know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.
