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 love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.
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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 will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
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I always root for the defense.
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Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.
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Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.
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Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.
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I think that TV and film are very important mediums to show what people of all races, ethnicities, sexual orientations can do, and I think that, as women, we are still in the process of proving what we can do, what we can accomplish, and who we are.
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The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.
