Haruki Murakami Quotes

I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.

Haruki Murakami

• Personality
• Transform
• Repetition
• Variation

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• We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

  

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• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

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• The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

  

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• We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.

  

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• There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

  

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• I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

  

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  Orson Scott Card
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• Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?

  

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• I've tried to pitch 'Borgen - the Musical,' but they just won't listen to me!

  

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• If I love something, I wear it to death!

  

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• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

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• I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Personality
  • Transform
  • Repetition