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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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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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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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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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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If I was a cabinetmaker or a commercial fisherman, it would be the same question - how to connect to my world. The job we do affords us the opportunity to have people listen to what we say. But a lot of people have a similar situation: They're trying to find a way to do some good.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.
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I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.
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Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.
