Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
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Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.
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I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.
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If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.
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A runner fell, and this caused a big pileup in which that runner got trampled and spiked, ... When we looked back 10 seconds later, the guy was still on the ground.
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I am not a ventriloquist.
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Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.
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If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals!
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I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I want to look just like David Beckham,' then that drives you to do certain things. You may never look like Beckham, but it is a goal. Cities need the same thing. They need a vision and a plan for their ideal physique.
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Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
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Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.
