Haruki Murakami Quotes
Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
Haruki Murakami
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Campbell Scott
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
M.I.A.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
Kate DiCamillo
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
Pamela Anderson
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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.
Karlie Kloss
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Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.
Dan Simmons
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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!
Fidel Castro
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Sex is nostalgia for sex.
Andy Warhol
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It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.
Anton Chekhov
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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.
Mary Gaitskill
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A role I grew up with and always loved was James Bond. I'd even say, in some ways, that he served as a creative role model for me as a kid in terms of roles I would want to play. I watched all of the movies growing up with my dad, so to be Bond himself would, without a doubt, be my dream role.
Elliot Knight
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Looking at this spectrum of angry to sad expressions, the abused kids were hyperalert to the slightest features of anger.
Bessel van der Kolk
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It was strange: I never had an interest in school because from an early age I knew the only thing I wanted to do was to play music! So I didn't feel so bad not going into school when I was supposed to be there - why do I need Latin, geography, physical education, etc., and to get beaten on a daily basis?
Andy Rourke
Pretenders
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Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.
Jessica Valenti
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Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
Haruki Murakami
