Haruki Murakami Quotes
You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
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We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.
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You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.
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So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.
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In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.
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I lasted seven years as a journalist, and I've been doing comedy for twenty years.
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The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.
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I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better.
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I'd like to have a kid, and I'd like to be driving around. I know a kid is going to be a big part of my life. I can trust my kid. I know my kid would be in the backseat of my car, and when I say You wanna get some ice-cream? he's going to be happy. My brother has kids. I see that trick work, the ice cream trick.
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When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.
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You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.
