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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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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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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Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.
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Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.
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If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.
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Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.
