Haruki Murakami Quotes
The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.
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The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
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As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
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Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'
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I feel like fashion and style is a big part of being an artist.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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You know you have a drinking problem when the bartender knows your name -- and you've never been to that bar before.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
