Haruki Murakami Quotes
Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
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My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.
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There appear to be as many learning styles among prodigies as there are prodigies to express them.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable on, and to shine a light on it.
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The people in the decision-making positions need to be thinking differently about who to hire, and looking more unsparingly at their choices. Why give this person a break over that person? Why give this person a second chance over that person? I do think that's where gender comes into play.
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Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.
