Haruki Murakami Quotes
Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.
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What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
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It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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A person who is shallow aspires to depth; one who is ugly aspires to beauty; one who is narrow aspires to breadth; one who is poor aspires to wealth; one who is humble aspires to esteem. Whatever one lacks in oneself he must seek outside.
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My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
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I love New York City. I really do. I 'heart' New York.
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I'll never try to win an award. I'm out there just playing for my team.
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It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
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Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.
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Honestly, I have been able to accept my father's new relationship because you get to that point with your parents that you realise it's their life, not yours.
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I'm an awful control freak at times when it comes to production and stuff like that.
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My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.
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But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.
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I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.
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Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
