John le Carre Quotes
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
Carlton Cuse -
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel Kant -
Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
Victoria Principal -
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
Randy Houser -
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
Sam Houston
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To survive is to win.
Zhang Yimou -
The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
Barry Zito -
In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
Barton Gellman -
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
Eckhart Tolle -
I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
Lamar Hunt -
In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
Oscar Isaac
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston -
People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.
Jackie Speier -
To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
Kate Winslet -
I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource.
Andrew Johnson -
Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters.
Anand Giridharadas -
The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.
Mavis Staples
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I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.
Kirsten Dunst -
I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!
Sherman Alexie -
There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
Ray Stevens -
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Jim Harrison -
When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.
Patanjali -
I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
John le Carre