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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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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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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My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.
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I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'
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It feels good when you learn to move on in life.
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What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.
