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 wise with hope support the pains of life.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.
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I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
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A theory is a battlefield in your head.
