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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
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One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
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Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.
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' Daisies' is about a guy touching dead people and bringing them back to life. It's kind of morbid, you know. But there's a love to it. There's a kind-heartedness to it that I think makes it - I don't know; it's a good thing to put out there in the world, so I'm glad people responded.
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My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
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Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.
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Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.
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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.
