Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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My father was a lawyer.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indian perspective... I think, for myself, I'm trying to put the Indian perspective in a different dimension.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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I'm an honest guy.
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I just want to be humble at all times.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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It is time to put up a love-swing!
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If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.
