Haruki Murakami Quotes
I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I don't know what love means.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
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From caring comes courage.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
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There are over 20 federal agencies that provide some, or all, of the steps in the export process. This can paint a very confusing and intimidating picture for small companies who often don't have designated export officials or trade representatives on staff to navigate the process for their businesses.
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Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.
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The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.
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Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?
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The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
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I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.
