Haruki Murakami Quotes
If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
Quotes to Explore
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.
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I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
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Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.
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When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
