Haruki Murakami Quotes
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.
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I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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Dad never interferes in our personal matters. He is a very candid person and knows where to draw the line. He is always there for all of us in the family.
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If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.
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My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.
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I'm going to play again. I will think and I will hope so. If I don't, I am fine with it.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
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While 'The Help' is in so many ways a celebration of these women's friendships and what they overcome, it's also very truthful and very painful, and it was intense for my mom to read that.
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If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.
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There are one or two things, which you can directly do in very critical times. But otherwise, this indirect influence that you can exercise on the affairs of the State is the most important role he can play. And, he can play it successfully only if he is, his ideas and his nature of functioning are seen by the public in tune with their standards. The President has to be a citizen and there must be some equation between the people and the President, and if some advice or something is to be given to the executive, it would be received with grace, it would be sometimes accepted, if it is known that the public opinion is on the side of the kind of advice the President is giving. Otherwise, he cannot exercise much influence.
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In this job, you're constantly surrounded by people. There are a lot of demands on your time. And I guess those moments when you can switch off and get away from it are really important.
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A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!
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Writing a Metallica song is a journey and a process, and it takes time, but that's what's special about it.
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How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
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Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
