Haruki Murakami Quotes
Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Ricky Gervais is a genius.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
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It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
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We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
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I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.
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There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.
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I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
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On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!
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I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
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Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.
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To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
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What's subcultural now is literally just a line of thinking, which is trying to be eyes wide open, in my view. It's no longer attached to a specific demographic or specifically downtrodden groups of people; it's much more free-floating, and you don't know where you're going to find it.
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Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.
