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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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 want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.
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We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.
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Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
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I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.
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I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.
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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich.… That leaves me making music. But we can’t talk about that.
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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.
