Haruki Murakami Quotes
There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.
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Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
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I believe that I can do more for women by being the best at what I do in the role that I have than going out and just talking about how women are awesome and you shouldn't mess with them.
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There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves.
