Haruki Murakami Quotes
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
Quotes to Explore
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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I am tone deaf.
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.
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I like performing in front of big crowds.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.
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You should be able to grab people with ideas.
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
