Haruki Murakami Quotes
Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.
Quotes to Explore
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.
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My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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There have always been different opinions on some elements of our sanction policy. It will probably stay that way... What is important is that we keep this unity and decide all together.
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A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.
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I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.' For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
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I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.
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And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
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We're born man, woman and sexual beings.
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Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.
