John le Carre Quotes
I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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Man lives in a world of meaning.
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I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
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We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
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I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.
