Haruki Murakami Quotes
This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
Quotes to Explore
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
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We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.
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As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.
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I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.
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The perfect shorts are always important.
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I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly.
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I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.
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I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.
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Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.
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The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
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You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.
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I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
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Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
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I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.
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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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There are two mistakes you can make in life,’ said Lucy. ‘The first is to think you’re special. The other is to think that you’re not.
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Having been frequently ignored or abandoned leaves them clinging and needy, even with the people who have abused them. Having been chronically beaten, molested, and otherwise mistreated, they cannot help but define themselves as defective and worthless. They come by their self-loathing, sense of defectiveness, and worthlessness honestly. Was it any surprise that they didn’t trust anyone? Finally, the combination of feeling fundamentally despicable and overreacting to slight frustrations makes it difficult for them to make friends.
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A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
