Haruki Murakami Quotes

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Haruki Murakami

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• For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Business
  • Friend
  • Wife

• 'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • May
  • Look
  • Easy

• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Leadership

• The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

  

  Frank Shorter
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Friends

• I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.

  

  Lindsay Fox
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Simple

• The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Important
  • Growing

• We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

  

  Anthony Holden
  • Long
  • Done
  • Political

• I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

  

  Lila Acheson Wallace

• It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Movie

• I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

  

  Jane Green
  • Important
  • Friendship

• Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

  

  David Remnick

• Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Life
  • Children

• They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

  

  John Hume
  • Thinking
  • Violence
  • Irish

• I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

  

  Emily VanCamp
  • Work

• It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

  

  John Avlon
  • Important
  • Remember

• Worship with fulness of heart the weak memory of heaven!It cannot traceEither your name or your faceNobody knows you're still living.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Heart
  • Heaven

• The heads of these divisions, like barons in a feudal system weakened at the top by mutual suspicion and jealousy between king and prince, were constantly at odds if not at war...For the most part the barons were knowledgeable people performing in a way the times had completely outdated, a fact of which they were quite unaware.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • People
  • War
  • King

• Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Why
  • Trust
  • Should

• Progress in economics is said to take place through a cumulative process in which scholars build on the work of their predecessors. In an age when graduate syllabi contain few references to books and articles written as many as ten years ago, this is too infrequently the case.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Work
  • Age
  • Progress

• I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Pain
  • Mean
  • Hurt

• Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Good
  • Brooklyn
  • Funky

• I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Pain
  • Meaning
  • Bear