Haruki Murakami Quotes
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?
Quotes to Explore
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
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A triathlon is on my bucket list. I started training a long time ago, and my life took a different turn: Things happen; work happens. I will definitely accomplish that at some point!
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.
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I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
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One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.
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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality.
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to change, you have to be able to agitate people at times. And I think that's something that's very necessary for us to improve as a country.
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What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.
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Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services.
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If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.
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The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.
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The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
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If you just look at the fact that a woman was central in twittering the Cairo revolution, and women were central to the Tunisian uprising. Women are at the center of everything right now and moving everything forward. And I do think in the next year or two, we are going to see such a woman spring, such a rising.
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America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.
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Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?
