Haruki Murakami Quotes
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.
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Would you like the oldest, most historically significant athletic competition the world has ever known, attracting athletes from every known nation on the face of the planet to come here and perform at the peak of their abilities, in the very city where you live? Most British people go, 'Where will we park?!'
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I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.
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The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant.
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For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.
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The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost nobody was doing the same for the silents. Now there are plenty of very good historians and restorers.
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I would love to do something that takes me on an adventure. I really want to do it all.
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I don't ever want to bring a child into this world without being as healthy as I can be; it's as simple as that.
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Since 1975, when I entered the Wharton Graduate School, I have belonged to a small group of economists who believe that the world does not contain a limited amount of physical resources. Quite the contrary, I believe that the world is a virtual cornucopia of physical resources.
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We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.
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What it feels like when you're playing good? I don't know. It feels the same as every other day. Just more putts are going in the hole.
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As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.
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God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.
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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
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We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.
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A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine.
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I love to eat and I love sweets... like chocolate. But I do work out.
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse .
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I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship.
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I can see myself staying at Blackburn for the rest of my career - unless I move to another club at some stage.
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My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.
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I move, therefore I am.
