Haruki Murakami Quotes
It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
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There's been a progression in my sound.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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Cheerleader roles are really not my thing. I want things that are weird or not typical.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.
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When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach.
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I have moments of weakness, but mostly I brush the criticism off... Who cares if I'm not a size zero? I don't want to be. I love my body; I'm healthy, I work out.
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Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
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When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.
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I'd rather go to a place and spend a couple of months, get to know it, get to know the people.
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I lost interest in being in the public eye.
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One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
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Well, it was evident that in ordinary cases, having tired one’s host, one would go away. But was this quite an ordinary case? She couldn’t think so. She couldn’t help remembering, though it was a thing she never thought of, that she had made way without difficulty for Stephen to come and live in this very house, giving him everything—why, with both hands giving him everything—and she couldn’t help feeling that to be allowed to stay in it for a few days, or even weeks, wasn’t so very much to want of him. Not that he didn’t allow her to stay in it; he was still assiduous in all politenesses, opening doors, and lighting candles, and so on. It was only that she knew he was tired of her; tired to the point of no longer being able to speak when she was there.
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It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.
