Haruki Murakami Quotes
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.
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I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man. It ends, therefore, with the categorical imperative to overthrow all those conditions in which man is an abased, enslaved, abandoned, contemptible being.
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High heels empower women in a way.
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I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
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I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.
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I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.
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A cheaper British currency could be a crisis if its swift move provoked a broader financial crisis, which it has not, or if it triggered massive inflation. For now, cheaper sterling will hurt some British households and enterprises while being a boon for others.
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I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.
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I'm in an area where I want to make music that I'm thrilled with, but, you know, I do have to worry about putting food on the table. I'm in that position where I cannot always be gauging what things might become. I have to look ahead, because I'm cautious.
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As an actor, you don't want to say, 'I'm going to be loud and big.' Because that looks awful; that looks fake.
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I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.
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I spend my money on cars. That's why I have a Challenger. It's a muscle car, like a Mustang. It's big and rumbly.
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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
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My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.
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A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied.
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That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
