John le Carre Quotes
I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
Quotes to Explore
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
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Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
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As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.
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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
