Haruki Murakami Quotes
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And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
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Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Fate is written in the face.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
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When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.
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Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
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The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.
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Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can't buzz any slower.
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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Every instrument requires to be made by experience.
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I've had friends who've had depression or been on medication because their pituitary glands aren't giving out enough hormones - so I've been around a lot of people who've had problems like that. I've always been open to talk about that.
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Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)
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Those sound like the three best answers I've ever heard on this show even though it's the first ever of this show!
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Nature is actually unnatural.
