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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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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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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A machine has no mind to read; you never know when it’s going to betray you-
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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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Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.
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One capitalist always kills many.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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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.
