Haruki Murakami Quotes
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'
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The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
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3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
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It is a wake-up call for all of us unless we put our house in order. The people of this country are becoming restless.
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Funny is funny.
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I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
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I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
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I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
