Haruki Murakami Quotes
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
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I love tap!
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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
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Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.
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The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.
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You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.
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What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
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Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.
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He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
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The invention of Instagram and Twitter has made, like, a big difference. Because you can just talk to anybody. And find anybody, it feels like.
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Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?
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Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
