Haruki Murakami Quotes
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin?
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I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
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It's terrible when I go somewhere, and I'm not recognized.
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With women you don't have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there.
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The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.
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Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.
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In 'The Travelers,' everyone is defined by his or her relationship to work. I put each character on a different rung of the ladder: from the lowliest assistant to a powerful man in the world of media.
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I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age.
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I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.
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I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.
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I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.
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The only thing common to all of this is that I feel sorrow so deep, it must be love...
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If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.
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Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.
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I feel absolutely sorry for the person who can't genuinely get excited about his or her work.
