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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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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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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There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.
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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.
