Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
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I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
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In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
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When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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It's a waste to not say anything with art.
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But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
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I don't know where I fit in the spectrum of rap yet.
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A drunkard cannot plead his case.
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Not only can I not recall my experiences in my previous lives, sometimes I can't even remember what I did yesterday.
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I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.
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The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with Bernard Leach.
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Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
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A theory is a battlefield in your head.
