Charles McCarry Quotes
People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.Charles McCarry
Quotes to Explore
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu -
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
Tea Obreht -
Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
Karl Rove -
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
Vince Vaughn -
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
Jack Dee -
The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
Naomi Wolf -
My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
Gary Sinise -
Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My brother is really, really slow.
Usain Bolt -
Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
Garret Dillahunt
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino -
Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
Lars Ulrich Metallica -
I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
Sam Rockwell -
I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
Imtiaz Ali -
I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
Yoko Ono -
Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
Taye Diggs
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It's not a personal mission to win La Liga, but I want it very badly.
Antoine Griezmann -
It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
Charlie Munger -
Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.
Anat Cohen -
The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.
Chogyam Trungpa -
I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates -
People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
Charles McCarry