Haruki Murakami Quotes

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

Haruki Murakami

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• Don't Care
• Hurt Me

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• In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

  

  Garrett Neff
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  • Beginning
  • Summer

• Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • You
  • Change
  • Growth

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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  • You
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• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
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• I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Live
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• Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Control
  • Now
  • Hollywood

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Fall
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• Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

  

  Jack Germond
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• My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Los Angeles
  • Certainly
  • Los

• I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Love
  • Think
  • Day

• I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
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• SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Time
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  • Direction

• Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.

  

  Vijay Kumar
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  • Communication
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• To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• A talented executive whose interests are aligned with the firm's and is confident in her role will always recruit stars who exceed herself in various ways, but one who is worried about her value to the firm will not.

  

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  • Value

• I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

  

  Loretta Devine
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• The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.

  

  Marek Hlasko
  • Dream
  • Freedom

• I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Happy
  • Don't Care
  • Hurt Me