Haruki Murakami Quotes
It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.Haruki Murakami
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. Mencken -
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton -
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Finley Peter Dunne -
It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
Edmund S. Muskie
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
Barbara Kruger -
I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
Earl Weaver -
I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
Landon Donovan -
A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Either you are a man of unusual ability, Thorn, or a man with a rather inadequate grasp of human nature. I just hope it’s the former.
Alastair Reynolds -
Jay Hov about to change my name to Jay Pesobut in a meantime called me William H thoughon a platinum Yamaha got the engine gunningthrowing it up like liquor on an empty stomach.
Jay-Z
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The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
Jason Calacanis -
I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.
Marco Arment -
I'm a massive 'WoW' nerd, and gamer in general.
Kristian Nairn -
Changing the dialogue and behaviors around race and equality in sports starts with removing barriers and creating opportunities.
Katrina Adams -
We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.
Jon Meacham -
I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.
W. S. Merwin
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I get the thumbs up like I'm hailing a yellow cab.
Nicki Minaj -
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
William Cowper -
I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.
Frank Miller -
Our national prosperity is built on our open borders. However, the reality is that if a points system is introduced in the UK it would be unavoidable for us in the Netherlands to implement similar proposals - and inevitable that many other EU countries would follow suit.
Mark Rutte -
It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.
Haruki Murakami