John le Carre Quotes
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Jack Henry Abbott -
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz -
I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
Bai Ling -
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
Ilan Stavans -
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky -
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
Harold H. Greene
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
Dane Cook -
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
Valerie Plame -
The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
Iggy Pop -
My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
Olivia Colman -
The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
Tariq Ramadan -
My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
Daniel Cormier
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
Nancy Reagan -
I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
B. D. Wong -
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
Barbara Bush -
I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
Manny Pacquiao -
The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
Ralph Allen -
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Gavin Bryars
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.
Whitney Houston -
So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other---" Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.
Laini Taylor -
Unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them to have.
Aung San Suu Kyi -
I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
LaToya Jackson -
By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
John le Carre