John le Carre Quotes

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.

John le Carre

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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

Rand Paul
- Up
- Being
- Through
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

P. L. Travers
- Up
- Friends
- Age
My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

Halldor Laxness
- Up
- Work
- Thoughts
I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

Joanne Rowling
- People
- Time
- World
Let the tech firms and consulting firms build your skills, but be sure to ask yourself, 'Am I maximizing my impact?' 'Am I living up to my values?'

Wendy Kopp
- Up
- Yourself
- Values
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

J. R. Moehringer
- Football
- Doing
- Look