Haruki Murakami Quotes
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.
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People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.
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When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn't doing more stories about Asian-Americans.
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The progressive Islamisation of our country and the increase in political-religious demands are calling into question the survival of our civilisation.
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Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.
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They say they can't believe it, it's a sacrilegious shame Now, who would want to hurt such a hero of the game? But you know I predicted it; I knew he had to fall How did it happen? I hope his suffering was small. Tell me every detail, I've got to know it all, And do you have a picture of the pain?
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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
