Haruki Murakami Quotes
The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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At first I didn't even realize she was pregnant. I kinda gotten used to her throwing up every time we had sex...
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.
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I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
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Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.
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Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
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Most girls spend most of their time at school. If real change comes from hearing our voices, it has to start in school, but school is a place where black girls tend to experience microaggressions. Microaggressions are not always obvious, ugly, or terrible things, but they make you feel as though your voice does not matter.
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I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.
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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
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The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.
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If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.
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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
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The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
