Haruki Murakami Quotes
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
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My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.
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People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
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I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.
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My parents are refugees from Vietnam, so they didn't grow up with 'Star Wars.' I don't think they know what's going on in the movie at any given time.
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Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.
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I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.
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I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.
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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
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Pearls mean tears.
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We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star.
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I can wrap my legs around my neck.
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There are so many ways to work out, and it is exhausting.
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I appreciate my true fans for enjoying me in what I do every day, whether interviews or playing heel. They are smart and nice people.
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That Jesus’ followers (and later Paul) had resurrection experiences is, in my judgment, a fact. What the reality was that gave rise to the experiences I do not know.
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It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They signal to knowledge workers that their job is not to make mistakes. Even if they don't make discoveries, no one can blame them as long as they don't make mistakes.
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Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
