Haruki Murakami Quotes
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.
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I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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The European vision is the United Nations' vision.
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After the election of George McGovern in 1972 as a peace candidate - I should say his election to the nomination of the Democratic Party - the party changed the rules to steeply tilt that playing field, creating superdelegates and Super Tuesdays that make it very hard for a grassroots campaign to prevail.
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Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.
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I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music.
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I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
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Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.
