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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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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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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I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
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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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I like doing thrillers.
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Pearls mean tears.
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I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.
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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
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I do think democracy has produced chaos, especially visual. A lot of people don't like it and yearn for nineteenth-century images, forgetting that the politics of those images were different than the democracy we love.
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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.
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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?
