Haruki Murakami Quotes
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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Time stays, we go.
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Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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I never go wild with nails.
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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
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Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
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Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
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The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
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When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand,And I like to take up space just because I can,And I use my dress to wipe up my drink.I care less and less what people think.
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Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
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Why must everybody like you?
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I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.
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Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.
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As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I'm obsessed with Bruno Mars' records. I'd give my right leg to be able to sing like that dude.
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Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.
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Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
