Haruki Murakami Quotes
As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
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I like to discover new things.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.
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Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.
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I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.
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...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
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I believe in order that I may understand.
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You don't want to do anything that doesn't glorify God in every way.
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I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.
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For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
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There are no signposts in the sea.
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It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.
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Ever since 9/11, the mood has changed quite a bit, and for the worst. The main cause for this change are the merchants of fear, who want to make us believe that Muslims are the new evil. By hammering on the assumption that all Muslims are terrorists who try to destroy the American society, they make people feel so very scared that some have accepted any kind of freedom-lessening measure, as long as it makes people feel less unsafe. That's not only the case in the U.S., the same goes for Europe.
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People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.
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I used to take long walks in England. The second time I went there, it helped me to lose a lot of weight. When I wasn't playing, I used to spend the whole day walking. Going from shop to shop.
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As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
