Haruki Murakami Quotes
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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I always root for the defense.
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All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
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Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.
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The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.
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The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
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The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.
