Haruki Murakami Quotes
That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.
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I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.
