Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
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You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
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And I also say Pooh for sweetness and light, And if you want to get the most out of life, why the thing to do is to be a gossiper by day and gossipee by night.
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Man is an eternal sophomore.
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The discharge of a duty from affection is the best solace for sorrow.
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Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.
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There are downsides to a lot of things. There are downsides to flying - people die every now and then. Do you want to stop all air flights? There are downsides to pharma; sometimes they're misused. Do you want to stop using pills?
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.
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Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
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People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.
