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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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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When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.
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My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.
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There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.
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I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.
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I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.
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I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.
