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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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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None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.
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There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.
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A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
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The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.
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Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.
