Haruki Murakami Quotes
Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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I never had time to dream about being anyone else.
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The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.
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In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.
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By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
