Haruki Murakami Quotes
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Power to the peaceful.
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I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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Ask me who I don't dress!
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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Nobody at CNBC owns gold. Nobody at Bloomberg owns gold. Gold is being constantly talked down by the media, and Fed officials, and economists, who also don't own any gold. They're all stocked up in equities.
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I had bulimia for a few years. I was really sick. I don't know that person; I can't believe that was me.
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So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
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America's neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they've chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens.
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I didn't want to be the guy who screwed up 'Toy Story.'
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When I was about 7, I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from 'My Girl.'
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Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.
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It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
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There are so many places I have visited which are unusual, but the ones my family and I tend to always go back to are those in Europe, particularly France and Italy.
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Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.
