Haruki Murakami Quotes
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
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I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
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There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
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In dreams begins responsiblities.