Haruki Murakami Quotes
The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.
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I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.
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I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
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…the cold deflation of crapula…
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467. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.'
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Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
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To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
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Don't go to the grave with life unused.
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I have dogs, and I hike.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
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Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.
