Haruki Murakami Quotes
Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
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Frankie Muniz is amazing at everything he does. Many people don't know that he can play the piano like you wouldn't believe, and he can bowl and play basketball like you wouldn't believe.
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Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.
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When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
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Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.
