Haruki Murakami Quotes
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.
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The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
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The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
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If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
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Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.
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It is not how much you have, but with whom you enjoy it.
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When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.
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Both in verse and in prose Karl Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody’s hair stand on end; he is always crying: 'But he hasn’t any clothes on!' about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.
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People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
