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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Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.
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When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.
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What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
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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.
