John le Carre Quotes
There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
John le Carre
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
Abbey Lincoln
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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
T Bone Burnett
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
Adam Grant
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On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
Hans Blix
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Okay, I’m going to go –- now, the one thing I’m going to do is I’m going to go boy, girl, boy, girl to make sure that it’s fair, because one thing I didn’t say in my initial speech is societies that are most successful also treat their women and girls with respect. Otherwise, they won’t be successful.
Barack Obama
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I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.
W. Somerset Maugham
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What is Juche the subject in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.
Kim Il-sung
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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...
Agatha Christie
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I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine, - The orchard and the mowing fields, The lawns and gardens fine.
Lucy Larcom
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The thinking man must … oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. True manhood is too precious a spiritual good for us to surrender any part of it to thoughtlessness.
Albert Schweitzer
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I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.
Ben Lovett
Mumford & Sons
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It's very American, making a lot of money.
Claire McCaskill
