Haruki Murakami Quotes
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
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I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
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When our binoculars are focused on the dad as 'deadbeat,' it often even leads us to missing concrete cues a dad gives to show his desire to be involved.
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Although we can discuss the question of what socialism is, what is its program and what are its tactics, one thing is obvious: the official Italian Socialist Party has been reactionary and absolutely conservative.
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Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it this way.
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I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.
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My wife and I love to travel, so if we don't have work on either her or my birthday, we definitely travel.
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The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.
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We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.
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I'm not a person who's obsessed with scary movies or horror films or anything like that, so when I was watching the original 'Walking Dead,' I was kind of surprised at how into it I was getting.
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If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.
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That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.
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To me, fashion is like a mirror... It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.
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Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
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Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled. I've been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.
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Passion can’t sustain itself forever.
