Haruki Murakami Quotes
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
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Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
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I love physicality. I love movement very much.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
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My family is just embarrassingly proud of me. My brothers get a little protective... overly protective. I've made rules now where I say: "You can't go outside and scream at people if they have cameras!"
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I love cities.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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With movies, they have a certain person or style that they're looking for. It's not that they don't like you, but maybe you're not the person that's right for their movie. That happens a lot.
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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
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I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
