Haruki Murakami Quotes
Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I don't read books.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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I want to make people laugh.
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Part of the great thing of looking back on how I went from the cattle ranch to the White House was, I was a country music DJ. I saw Garth Brooks perform for free in 1992 at the Colorado State Fair where I met this person who knew about this graduate school program.
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The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
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Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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It's incredible how London-centric the theatre world is. Certain actors won't travel away from London anymore for work; practitioners often aren't taken seriously enough unless their work is seen in London; and it's sometimes very difficult to get national critics to review shows - especially if there's a clash with a London press night.
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You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you. (Hays translation)
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Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.
