Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
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Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.
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All I want to do is change the world.
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When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.
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In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.
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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
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I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.
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A man hunted only for food or clothing or in self-defense. It was another mark of the effete and the sadistic to take life as a sport.
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Less hate and greedIs what we needAnd more of service true;More men to loveThe flag aboveAnd keep it first in view.Less boast and bragAbout the flag,More faith in what it means;More heads erect,More self-respect,Less talk of war machines.
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I have often been asked how I came to write. The best answer is that I needed the money. When I started I was 35 and had failed in every enterprise I had ever attempted.
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Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'.
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I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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You cannot imagine how wearisome existence grows, alone and immortal.
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I find that I don't lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I'm talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I'm not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don't lie about myself because I don't lie to myself.
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Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.
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I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.
