Haruki Murakami Quotes
I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
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I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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No one gets as tired as a tired tramp.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.
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I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.
