Haruki Murakami Quotes
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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I'm an emotional person.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.
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Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.
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I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.
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I don't keep a list of people I want to talk to. It's organic. But I'd like to interview Tom Brady. Someday I'd love to meet Vladimir Putin. I'd ask him how he sees the landscape of the world, what could make it better, how that could be done.
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I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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I am an 'other.' As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of 'otherness,' I've spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.
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I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.
