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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By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.
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I can explain that shot. Arnold moved his wallet to the other pocket.
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I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.
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I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
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When you're a kid, you always think about your parents, and I still do. I try to lead with the same example that they set.
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I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.
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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.
