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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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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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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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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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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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 would have preferred to keep both brands. But in the way (that) it developed, I am very satisfied.
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Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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I think maybe a little more was expected from the women's program because of the success we've had, both at South Dakota State and here. It's not as much of a shocker, but I think we've opened some eyes that, quickly, we've been able to compete without having to spend a lot of time in the transition to Division I.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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The original WAS a fun film. [Paul] Verhoeven made a couple of 'Robocops' that were so great, too. I think the level of excitement is great and Arnie [Schwarzenegger] was particularly charismatic with that chopped up English, and the size of the man with his confidence and sense of humor.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
