Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I love Coco de Mer.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
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Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.
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All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
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I don't stay in my trailer. I like to sit in video village, probably to the annoyance of some producers and directors, because they really love to talk about actors, and they can't in front of me.
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In the 1970s, the scare was about global cooling.
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.
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The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
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Love is so simple.
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'Dennis is the best player I have ever played with as a partner. It is a dream for a striker to have him in the team with you.' - Thierry Henry 2
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When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.
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Try telling people in the Seventies that butter was healthier for you than margarine, and they would force feed you with Stork.
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When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.
