Haruki Murakami Quotes
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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While there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straight and narrow path of the Gospels. ... Holy things will never be established or reestablished so long as we have this fear of appearing singular.
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The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority they resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists as at abstraction.
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There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.
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The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.
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Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
