Haruki Murakami Quotes
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
Haruki Murakami
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
Vera Wang
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
T. S. Eliot
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Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
Adam Smith
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
Anand Giridharadas
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I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.
Deepika Padukone
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I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.
Audrey MacLean
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No one wants perfection. I want a confident, smart guy, obviously, but what's hot is a guy who doesn't have all the answers. We gals like a guy we can help because, ultimately, we like being needed.
Daniela Ruah
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My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.
Carol Kane
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I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.
Doris Lessing
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We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.
Paul Tagliabue
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I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
Anne McCaffrey
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
Jack Gleeson
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I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.
Juan Cole
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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon Hill
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The unbeliever walks for a quadrillion miles, yet one moments of reality makes up for it.
Colin Wilson
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Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
Haruki Murakami
