Haruki Murakami Quotes
It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.
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I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.
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I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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Listen! There will be no more offerings, neither child nor parent. There will be no more sacrifices for anyone other than our fellow human. The time of obedience and atonement is past.
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Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
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If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.
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The meaning of a question is the method of answering it: then what is the meaning of 'Do two men really mean the same by the word 'white'?' Tell me how you are searching, and I will tell you what you are searching for.
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A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
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I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.
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If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
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I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make me feel so enthusiastic about beauty. That one good, magical moment can give me enough to create other things like the teardrop earring or necklace.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.
