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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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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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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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've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.
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Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.
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All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.
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I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.
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I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.
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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
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I eat a lot. I probably eat more than anybody that I know. I'll go on set and get a plate of bacon, a bagel, an omelet, boiled eggs, fresh fruit, oatmeal, fresh juice, potatoes, basically anything that's there. I don't mean that I alternate between these things. I'll eat all of this for breakfast.
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My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'
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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.
