Haruki Murakami Quotes
Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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'You drink wine, you have foreskins. These things have been observed.'
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I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
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It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!
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More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.
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I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.
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I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.
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I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that are very funny about that.
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
