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 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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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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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.
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The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.
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Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability.
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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
