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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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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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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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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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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Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
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Most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars.
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The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.
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The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.
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Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd mess up the next one, and I'd yell, 'Don't tell me that! I'll mess up! Just don't say anything!' You know, if someone says, 'You can't do that,' then I'm going to be, 'Yeah, you watch me.'
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When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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You just take any job you can that will allow your dream to come true.
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I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.
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When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.
