John le Carre Quotes
I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.
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Alan Greenspan is going to go down in history as one of the worst Federal Reserve chairmen ever.
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I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
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I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.
