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 knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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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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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
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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 think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
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As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.
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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.
