Haruki Murakami Quotes
If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.
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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.
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Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
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Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.
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As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
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Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
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No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.
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I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath.
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If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.
