Haruki Murakami Quotes
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.
Quotes to Explore
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
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My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
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Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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My friends are my family.
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I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.
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I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
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I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.
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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.
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I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Agonies are one of my changes of garments.
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No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.
