Haruki Murakami Quotes
Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
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I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
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In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
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I think the first thing I consider is whether I like the script. Once that is done, the next thing I look for is my part in the movie. Many a times you come across good offers, but the part they are offering might not be challenging. So, I don't take up that film.
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There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.
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My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.
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Gentlemen prefer blondes.
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Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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When Saddam Hussein was eliminated, the Iraqi statehood and thousands of people from the former Baath party were also eliminated. Thousands of Iraqi servicemen, who were part of the state's Sunni elite, found themselves thrown out into the street. No one gave a thought about them, and today they end up in the ISIS army.
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Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.
