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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We reflect on our successes and failures at monthly staff meetings.
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Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage. The real contributions of economics to human welfare might turn out to be very different from what most people - even most economists - expect.
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For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.
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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.
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I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.
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Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
