Haruki Murakami Quotes
TYou know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.
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I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.
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If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.
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The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
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I judge the jobs I've had in this business by the places they took me, and by that standard, there simply has been nothing to match 'The National Sports Daily.'
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I like being part of a team.
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I mix my fragrances with body oils - I love body oils, so that's my little trick.
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I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.
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Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.
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It's not just fleet of foot or speed. It's about who gets caught and gets knocked out.
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I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.
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It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.
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Carrier networks were originally built for connecting phone calls. Now they're getting swamped with bandwidth-hogging data applications. Keeping up will require huge investments. Who's going to pay for that?
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In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.
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I've been playing since I was eight years old.
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I do need a bit of a trim but I'm a bit nervous about getting it cut.
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TYou know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.
