Haruki Murakami Quotes
Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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There are things I can accomplish in the studio via manipulation on the computer or some kind of effect that are nearly impossible to do live. On the flip side, there are some things that happen live that can't be pulled off in the studio.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
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I am not yet born; forgive meFor the sins that in me the world shall commit, my wordsWhen they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,My treason engendered by traitors beyond me,My life when they murder by means of myHands, my death when they live me.
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That's a different side of the brain going into the studio, as opposed to doing a live show, obviously.
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Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.
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I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.
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I almost had to exhaust myself at modeling before I could say, 'O.K., I'm ready for school.'
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The key to a good horror movie is what happens between the scares. The scares aren't the tricky part. If you're involved in what's going on in between, the scare is going to trick you. If you're not, the best scare in the world will not be scary.
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Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.
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The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies ; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.
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Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
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These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants and a cellphone book.
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I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action ...
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Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
