Haruki Murakami Quotes
You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
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I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!
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I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.
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I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.
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When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.
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As I started eating more natural foods and thinking about what I was putting into my body, I became more interested in what I was putting on it, too.
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If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
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But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.
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Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a Shakespeare and give him a total knowledge of the plan of salvation of God and personal revelation and cleanse him and take a look at the statues he will carve and the murals he will paint and the masterpieves he will produce. Take a handel with his purposeful effort, his superb talent, his earnest desire to properly depict the story, and give him inward vision of the whole true story and revelation, and what a master you will have!
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Passion without purpose is kind of pointless. I think God gives us the vision and wisdom to help enforce what he sees for us. You don't just sit at home and end up on 'Empire.'
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Isn't it better to be alone than pretend you're someone else? Be you. Find you. Be happy with that.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.
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You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.
