Haruki Murakami Quotes
Can't trust people. Won't do any good. They'll kill you everytime. They'll kill eachother. They'll kill everyone.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.
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I never wanted fame.
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I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.
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The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
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Unlike every other other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
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While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
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If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.
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The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
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The number one thing I would say to someone who wants to start a business is if you really can't sleep at night and smack the passion out of yourself, then go for it, but if you can live a happy life working for someone else, do that.
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Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.
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Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.
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Can't trust people. Won't do any good. They'll kill you everytime. They'll kill eachother. They'll kill everyone.
