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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Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium. On the other hand, I trained as a documentary filmmaker in film school, so my films very much reflect reality and socio-political problems. They're less subtle I would say.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.
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It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
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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.
