Haruki Murakami Quotes
I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.
Quotes to Explore
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
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I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
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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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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, 'What happened next?'
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When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
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It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
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I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.
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Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.
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I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.
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To create a harmonious inner existence is a positive act with far-reaching effects, and not an act of isolation. To desire peace strongly is to help achieve it.
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What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies.
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If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general.
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I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.
