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.
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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.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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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.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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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.
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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.
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These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.
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The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
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My mom says I was born screaming.
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I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds.
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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.
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I'm a massive 'WoW' nerd, and gamer in general.
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Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell of me is crafted by that artistry. My life is His breath. But we mortals grow numb. We want to feel more. And so we add MSG to our earthly brands of holiness.
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I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.
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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.
