Haruki Murakami Quotes
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Time stays, we go.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.
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There are many creeds but only one faith. Creeds may change, develop, and grow flat, while the substance of faith remains the same in all ages. The overgrowth of creed may bring about the disintegration of that substance. The proper relation is a minimum of creed and a maximum of faith.
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All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in infering that he is an inexact man.
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I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.
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I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.
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We don't go into a market without a chance of a 40 percent share and sustainable differentiation. We wouldn't get into wiring oil rigs if we didn't believe we could get 40 percent.
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You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.
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All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.
