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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I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.
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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.
