Haruki Murakami Quotes
Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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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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I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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I'm not graceful.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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It's not that I don't feel bad about it. It's just that I don't feel worse today than what I felt yesterday.
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
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When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.
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An increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by fundamental policy reforms, substantial budget savings, and a strong enforcement mechanism to tie the hands of any future Congress.
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I think what we've found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we're really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social.
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Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
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Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.
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A very merry, dancing, drinking,Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.
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Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man.
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My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.
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All great art is a visual form of prayer.
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Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
