Haruki Murakami Quotes
I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
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People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.
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The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
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We got offers to make sequels to both 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' and they never really interested us because we like having these endings where it seems very final but could hint at some kind of future adventure that you'll never see.
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We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
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I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.
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When we did shoot in the East Village, they had to spread around a lot of trash and put transparencies of graffiti up in front of the walls.
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...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.
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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.
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There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.
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I can't be left unsupervised.
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I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.
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I never was a very good singer.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
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I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.
