Haruki Murakami Quotes
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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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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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
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It's not the time to look for excuses.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they're not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that's very male dominated.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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: And it goes against the grain of building small tools.Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
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My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
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A dense film of a conventional surfactant is quite impermeable. On the other hand, a dense film of Janus grains always has some interstices between the grains, and allows for chemical exchange between the two sides; 'the skin can breathe'. This may possibly be of some practical interest.
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My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
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My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
