Haruki Murakami Quotes
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that. And I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone
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Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.
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Customer-centricity is unbelievably important.
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I was always opinionated.
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Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.
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I want to make dubstep something beautiful.
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Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.
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The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
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Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism.
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Every Chanel show I've been to is very conceptual. Even down to the music and smells, the whole thing is connected.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.
