John le Carre Quotes
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.John le Carre
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Bebe Rexha -
I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
Nancy Reagan -
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
Zhang Zhidong -
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
Jackie Cooper -
I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
Zach LaVine -
No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
Kapil Sibal -
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson -
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray -
I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
Victor Cruz -
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
Han Fei -
I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
Fiona Apple -
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Jack Germond -
French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
Vincent Cassel
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
Jack Ma -
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
Beck -
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
Sally Hawkins -
Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.
Raghuram Rajan -
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
John le Carre