Haruki Murakami Quotes
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
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I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!
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The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.
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We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'
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DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
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Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought all those dungbombs on Saturday. You could have bought a new book instead. Ron: Dungbombs rule.
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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
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Censorship has kind of disappeared in a way because everything is accessible online.
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The lean and mean fighting machines, we're beyond that.
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To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.
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That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
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If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me.
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A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
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The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.
