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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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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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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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.
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Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
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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.
