Haruki Murakami Quotes
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
Quotes to Explore
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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Care and pity are two different things.
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I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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The big experience of feeling like I jumped off into the deep end was that transition from college into the workforce. There were so many unwritten rules I didn't understand.
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Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.
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The Obama administration has already imposed burdensome regulations - for instance, the sprawling Clean Power Plan aimed at wiping out the coal industry - that will raise the cost of energy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work.
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Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.
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Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
