Haruki Murakami Quotes
It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior.
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Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.
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It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
