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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If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.
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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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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.
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We tried out Question Mark and thought he was a really good singer. He had good showmanship, so we brought him in the band.
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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.
