Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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I like retirement.
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.
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I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
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Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.
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It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?
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The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth.
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Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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Every human being makes mistakes.
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When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.
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Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.
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I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.
