Haruki Murakami Quotes
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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Be not false about the past.
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I'm singing this song for you and your mum that's all,And it won't be long before everyone is gone.
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A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don't need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society.
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My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.
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AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
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I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'
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I look at Canada like a second home.
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Half my fan mail comes from Japan.
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I... had my mind blown by all the opportunities that were in California in the '60s and '70s. In Detroit, everything was Freud... Out here, everything was Jung.
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I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.
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One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.
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I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
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Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
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I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.
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One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.
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He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.
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Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
