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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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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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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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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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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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
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I don't think I've ever been as humbled as I have been in Pilates. It's incredible how much body control and how much isolated strength you have to have to complete these movements successfully.
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The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.
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Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?' No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud.
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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
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Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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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.
