Haruki Murakami Quotes
Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.
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I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
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I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.
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Who said last, 'A cleaner New York-school is Up To You?'
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The fact that 'Mom' is not joke, joke, joke - and is investing in these characters and their lives, things that really happen to people - I think it's resonating, and that's why people are tuning into it and not just dismissing it as a multi-cam sitcom.
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It doesn't matter where anybody lives, we're all here.
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Guys dropped their families and followed Him... When I read of Christ and the Apostles, I see mind control at work to an extent.
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Targeting women is key in developing countries. It allows them to go to school, to say how many children they're going to have, which drives the issue of population and how their children will be educated. Women are the best investments in developing countries.
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Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.
