Haruki Murakami Quotes
Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.
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One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
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Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.
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Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.
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I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about.
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Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.
