Haruki Murakami Quotes
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
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I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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When my son is taping for his permanent collection, he sits there and pauses his machine and when he is finished with it, he has a marvelous Clint Eastwood movie and there is no sign of a commercial. It is a brand new movie and he can put three of those on one 6-hour tape.
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The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
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A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.
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I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
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Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.
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Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
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Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.
