Haruki Murakami Quotes
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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Care and pity are two different things.
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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I do have too many eight-inch heels which I never get to wear.
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
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If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.
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I think there is a larger responsibility towards actors to make television what it should be in India. I would love to take on the challenge. Had it been for me, I would focus on good content.
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You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.
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I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.
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We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
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You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.
