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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I've always been a 'small goals' kind of guy.
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I went to one doctor who told me I wasn't exercising enough. I was so exhausted, I couldn't raise my arm. When this doctor called it psychosomatic, I was enraged. To think the constant sore throat and swollen glands were all in my head was infuriating.
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Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
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Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
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Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
