Haruki Murakami Quotes
Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.
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It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'
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They may not know how good they are yet.
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Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
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You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'
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It's just the acting side of things. It's not like music, where you can go out there and be independent. It's a bit more difficult to get out there on your own and be an actor. It takes time.
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Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.