Haruki Murakami Quotes
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
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No one man is superior to the game.
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.
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The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.
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The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
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My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.
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When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
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They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.
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Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
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In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
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It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
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When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.
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I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.
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I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
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Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.
