Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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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.
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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.
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Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
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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.
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The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.
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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.
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I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.
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It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.
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I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
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Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
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Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.
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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.
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Worship with fulness of heart the weak memory of heaven!It cannot traceEither your name or your faceNobody knows you're still living.
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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.
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And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long, In the sun born over and over, I ran my heedless ways.
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Man should know from this rule that he is cut off from truth.
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But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
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Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
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Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.
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To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion and avoid causing others pain. And to the extent that suffering awakens our empathy and causes us to connect with others, it serves as the basis of compassion and love.
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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
