Haruki Murakami Quotes
Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.
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You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. … They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
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I had plenty of LSD, but why take it. I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me. It was going to show me that garden again and then I was going to be cast out and that was it.
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Be content - Expansions, diffusions - content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...
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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
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Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
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Jung fiercely resented the implication that he was a hypocritical, self-seeking Judas, a 'rat'. Yet there was just enough truth in it to strike home. He was undoubtedly a man who liked his own way, no matter what the cost to others.
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More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them. And more government isn't going to inspire new ideas, new businesses and new private sector jobs. It's going to create uncertainty.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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Si nada se nos fuera durante la vida, se nos iría la vida sin nada.
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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
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I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
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Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.
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For some reason, many designers are in fashion, but they don't love women. I love women, and I follow my clients on Instagram.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is.
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Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.
