Haruki Murakami Quotes
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
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Science is not gadgetry.
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I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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He could have shot her from behind a hedge in the good old Irish fashion and probably got away with it.
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It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.
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You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.
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The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.
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I've had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I've never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I've called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
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I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.
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We've also started promoting in Japan, and compared to TVXQ sunbaes, we still have to secure a place. We all like TVXQ very much. We hope this time we'll use the chance to become more intimate with the members.
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If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
