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.

Haruki Murakami

• Music
• Confidence
• Loved
• Cats

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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.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feeling

• You think about taking audiences on a journey.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Think
  • You
  • Journey

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• 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.

  

  Barry Diller
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  • Long
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• When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
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• My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

  

  Tamara Mellon
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• I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • American
  • 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.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Bad
  • Today
  • Science

• I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Ignore
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  • Reflecting

• When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Important
  • Country
  • Strong

• I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • School
  • Free
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• I couldn't care less about business.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Business
  • Care
  • Less

• 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.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Good
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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.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
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• The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Age
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  • 19th-Century

• If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

  

  Max Levchin
  • Work

• If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Up

• I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • Age

• I grew up in a small town in Kansas, so I love meeting the fans. Those are the people who spend time out of their day to watch the things that I've done, and I've gotten to do some great supernatural stuff - 'Teen Wolf' and 'The Gates' before that - so it's nice when I get to go to Comic-Con every year.

  

  Colton Haynes
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• Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  

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• In the music industry, you can't create success without having to engage a white man. It's just not possible. Whether it's executives, A&Rs, and the people that hold the key to your paper, inevitably, you'll be met with whiteness.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • People
  • Music
  • Success

• Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Musical
  • Pieces

• Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Music
  • Words
  • Comes

• 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.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Music
  • Confidence
  • Loved