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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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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The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
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My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.
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An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
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Ask me to define my love for you and I’ll say it’s captured in every beautiful memory of our past, detailed out in vivid visions of our dreams and future plans, but most of all it’s right now, in the moment where everything I’ve ever wanted in my life is standing right in front of me.
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Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.
