Haruki Murakami Quotes
Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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Today, models are able to share industry news, trends, and communicate with fans through Twitter, Instagram and blogs. So in a way, our position as models is way more personable and relatable.
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Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.
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Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
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Sex is nostalgia for sex.
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When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.
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It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.
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I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.
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It was tough for me at school... trying to blend in and get along with other kids. I was an oddity and kids are scared of things they don't understand.
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We don't think there is any money to be made in payments anymore. The entire business model of extracting a toll or having time delays around the movement of value is going away completely.
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Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
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Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.
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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
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When a kid graduates from being the youngest in a family to being a big brother or sister, there's an amazing transformation. They have to make a big effort, and when they accept their new position in the family, everybody breathes a sigh of relief. All of a sudden they seem bigger, and they seem smarter, and they feel good about it, too.
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It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.
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Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.
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People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.
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In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.
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Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
