Haruki Murakami Quotes
It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs.
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If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.
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Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.
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I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.
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So while in men’s magazines success is a power tool to get sex and love, and therefore the look of success is crucial, in women’s magazines love and sex are power tools to get success-and therefore both the look of love and the sexual tease/promise are crucial.
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Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
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Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.
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It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.
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Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.
