Haruki Murakami Quotes
Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
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I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.
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Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
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Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?... Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?... There is such a one.... Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.
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The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.
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Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.
