Haruki Murakami Quotes
Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man?
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
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I love Westerns!
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One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.
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'Those who created yesterday’s pain cannot control tomorrow’s potential.'
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
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I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
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I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.
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If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.
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I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.
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I was not a very fearful kid, really.
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My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.
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With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein.
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The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not find its full or complete satisfaction in the conventional or superficial, and deceitful world, in which or where everyone is mainly or mostly trying to assert oneself in front of others, to appear, and hoping to find in society relationships some advantages for his interest and vanity.
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When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
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Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature.
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I have teenage boys and I think teenage boys require a father to have eyeballs on them at all times.
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Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man?
