Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
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I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.
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It's weird to get asked questions that I don't know the answers to... But I like getting questions I don't know the answer to because maybe it's the first time I've been asked to articulate these things.
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As a woman, I think Margaret Thatcher felt she had to be ten times more prepared than the men.
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Sport is a great way to keep fit. It's a stress reliever.
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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
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In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.
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I'd hope that the story A Dog's Purpose helps everyone reflect on how many different "lives" we all live - from children to teenager to adults to seniors - and how each phase of life presents new situations along the way to discovering our ultimate purpose.
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Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.
